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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cases from eleven of the 17 Cutter lots "were not higher than could be expected," but the other six lots resulted in an abnormally high number (at least 103 cases...
After a "regular wall of water" hit her bungalow and started to rip it to pieces, she and her children rushed to a more solidly built house on higher ground, where about 35 others at the camp had fled. As the water rose, the refugees retreated to the second floor, finally to the attic...
...were terrified, but we couldn't do anything but watch the water coming up toward us. It kept getting higher and higher. When it reached the attic floor we felt the house give a shudder and the whole house collapsed. It just fell apart and all of us went tumbling into a jumble of water, boards and screams...
...Butler's bad news was that the British boom is faltering. Production is higher than it has ever been, but consumption is higher still, and the island is not paying its way. The evidence, as Butler laid it before the Cabinet...
...turned upside down and tapped; more stubborn food remnants can be burned off by putting the coated saucepan back on a hot stove. By early fall the first batch of 7,500 Selinized standard aluminum utensils will be marketed in the Nebraska area at prices about 25% higher than regular utensils...