Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They also hope that U.S. companies may now get exploratory concessions in India, Trinidad and many other parts of the British Empire from which they have been barred. Most of all, oilmen hope that if the swollen wartime oil production causes the expected world surplus in petroleum, they will be able to cure it in other ways than by price-cutting each other's throats...
Eastern Europe's roads were already flooded with the harried, homeless & hungry when, last week, another vast tide was unloosed into the swollen streams. Winter would bring history's greatest migration. Millions of Germans and many of their masters prayed that it would be a mild winter...
...nation wondered how deep and how serious an economic wound would come from sharp cutbacks in war production , Washington made hasty plans and emergency estimates. The most hopeful guess of Government economists was that the worst might be over in six months. In those six months the war-swollen U.S. economy would suffer hard bumps...
...Manhattan, in the first fortnight after St. Swithin's Day, rain fell eleven days. New Jersey was soggy after the worst floods in four decades. At Little Falls, the Passaic River washed out a railroad bridge, leaving only the tracks swaying above the swollen current (see cut). New Orleans sloshed through its rainiest July ever (14 inches plus). When a man in Minneapolis ran out of ice cubes, his mother-in-law dashed into the backyard, picked up a handful of hailstones. It was no legend, but a fact, that the U.S. had had unusual weather since the hottest...
...Open Door. But two factors worked against Josephine Roche from the start: 1) wobbly R.M.F.'s swollen bonded indebtedness of $3,971,000, floated in 1913; 2) cheap natural gas from Texas...