Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...generously given in construction. . . . The volume of this type of construction work, which amounted to roughly $6,300,000,000 in 1929, instead of decreasing will show a total of about $7,000,000,000 for 1930. . . . The Federal Government is engaged upon the greatest program of waterway, harbor, flood control, public building, highway, and airway improvement in all our history. This, together with loans to merchant shipbuilders, improvement of the Navy and in military aviation, and other construction work . . . will exceed $520,000,000 for this fiscal year. This compares with $253,000,000 in the fiscal year...
When a book of gossipy memoirs entitled The Story of San Michele was launched in the U. S. (May, 1929) by Publisher Dutton, the little imported edition (364 copies) slid simply down the ways, struggled unostentatiously against the flood, then sank apparently without a trace. But ten months later it emerged again as a bestseller, led all non-fiction books for eleven months.* So famed grew The Story of San Michele and its author, Dr. Axel Munthe, that shrewd Publisher Dutton wanted to launch another Munthe book. Not having a new one handy he raised from the bottom, where...
...happens on a gypsy camp, meets a gypsy who is different from all the men she knows. She thinks of him constantly, nearly goes to him, but never does. When a nearby reservoir bursts she is sitting by the river; the gypsy rescues her from the flood and carries her to her room in safety. They keep each other alive through the cold night while half the house is swept away. In the morning, when a rescue party comes, the gypsy has gone...
...consulate on another floor, returned with a U. S. flag which he draped over the United Press doorway. ". . . The mob leaders, not wishing to cause a conflict with the U. S., stood by and ordered everything packed up lest it be damaged in the fire and flood which followed ... all we lost . . . was a fountain pen which was picked up by someone and a photograph of Julio Prestes [onetime] president-elect of Brazil [which was confiscated...
...Indian fourth estate eleven has been holding secret workouts under flood lights all week, to accustom themselves to the bright lights they will encounter in Boston...