Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...These sums are tremendous." said the President, "even when compared with the marvelous resiliency and capacity of our economy." And beyond that, with an annual population growth of three million, the U.S. will also have to meet higher costs in federal aid to health, education, water resources development, highway construction, urban renewal programs. He would, he promised, soon convene a committee of educators, businessmen, labor leaders and professional men to make a new study of new "national objectives"-which presumably could be pursued by private as well as Government effort. The common denominator of cold-war defense and domestic growth...
...wall of water, with the weight of 230 million cu. ft. behind it, came surging down the narrow ravine, smashed into the village in a wave 20 ft. high. The stone bridge was swept away. The church was cut in two, and only the tower remained standing. All but 25 of the town's 150 houses were wiped...
Slowly, the flood subsided and lost itself in the waters of Lake Sanabria. On the surface floated the bodies of men, women and children. Dead cows, pigs and chickens were mingled indiscriminately with tree trunks, telegraph poles, rooftops, household goods. A man caught in his home floated to safety on the inflated rubber mattress on which he was sleeping. The innkeeper, who escaped to the hillside, went back to empty his cash register and was drowned. Just before the water hit, an elderly couple dashed back for their life savings. They disappeared. Of the village's 500 inhabitants...
...Knolls Laboratories near Schenectady, N.Y., G.E. is designing a twin-reactor, pressurized-water system for the world's largest submarine, the U.S.S. Triton. It is building a reactor system for the Navy's first nuclear destroyer, studying a boiling-water reactor for use in a merchant ship...
...Industries (1957 sales: $294,592,000) is constructing a 22,000-kw. boiling-water reactor for the AEC at Elk River, Minn, for completion in 1960, test and research reactors for use in Sweden, The Netherlands and Italy...