Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles along the Columbia's lower reaches, families fled their homes. Under the water's relentless weight, dikes became soggy, began to leak in small treacherous rivulets. Downstream from Portland, the dike protecting Woodland (Wash.) broke. Four days later the river cracked the Johns Dike at Clatskenie. At Portland, the backed-up waters of the Willamette River topped the retaining walls, flooded the railroad station and the airport. Trucks and bulldozers worked night & day; troops and volunteers sandbagged every damp spot...
...over Mexico City, blue and cloudless since November, last week turned grey. Now & then a little rain fell, and the afternoon winds ceased to cloak the city with powdery dust from the fields outside. In many a village women got ready for the first family wash since the village brook dried up last fall. Men stuck out their tongues to taste the rain,'or stood watching it soak into the parched earth...
Americans were responding. Item: a carload of clothing for Europe from the students of Missouri's Park College. Item: 40 home-made wash dresses shipped off by the Ladies Relief Society of the Mormon Church in Indianapolis. Item: a triple boost in the number of CARE packages sent abroad last year. The plight of Europe had touched the hearts of men, women & children in the U.S., a nation which had come from Europe...
...Passed a bill for payment of $2,079 to a mink rancher near Roy, Wash., because low-flying military aircraft from Gray Field so upset mother minks that they destroyed their young...
Back at the White House, Harry Truman barely had time to wash up a bit before playing host to a royal visitor: Belgium's Regent Charles-Theodore-Henri-Antoine Meinrad, Count of Flanders. Prince Charles arrived amid a din of sirens. He wore the khaki uniform of a major general, was accompanied by Belgian Premier Paul-Henri Spaak. A tall young man with a penchant for playing ping-pong, he looked rather bored...