Word: wettest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...results are dramatic. Last week engineers at Omaha, St. Louis, Kansas City and a hundred other cities were reading flow-rate gauges, poring over charts of rainfall data, passing on warnings to danger spots. Yet, after one of history's worst, wettest winters, the situation seemed generally under control. In Percival, Iowa, Farmer Mark Sheldon recalled 1952, when his 1,000 acres of corn were destroyed by floodwaters. Last year, with the tides equally high, he got 61 bushels to the acre, and this year he expects to do even better. In Omaha, Alva Sconce, owner of a lumber...