Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Rejected (39 to 27) a tariff on crude oil. ¶ Passed a bill providing $7,000,000 for farm relief in flood and drought areas...
...does this look like it?" Of his exile at Doom with his father he said: "The climate was terrible. . . . The Dutch people are not easy to harmonize with. I once wrote to a friend . . . that many of the women I saw were heavy, with piano legs. ... I got a flood of letters from indignant Dutch women and girls...
...agreement that will stop sinking of wells that call for offset drillings, with ring after ring of offsets. We want to participate in a voluntary plan by which all holders of proven land can benefit. We want to avoid 'drowning' the gasoline market with the flood of Kettleman Oil." He proposed four remedies : i ) Pooling all profits from the field according to acre age; 2) Purchase by big companies of all small holdings; 3) Government purchase of lands not brought into the limitation agreement; 4) A holding company to con trol the whole dome's development...
...Today the public opinion of the world is calling in sober earnest for the security and happiness of national life and for peace and friendship in international relations. Should the London Conference take this tide at its flood its labors will surely be crowned with success. The nations there represented can ill afford once more to disappoint this public demand...
Days ahead it was impossible to obtain tickets at the $5 box-office price. Hours ahead a crowd ready, and willing to be come popeyed, collected at the flood lighted theatre entrance. By 9 p. m. those on the curb and those in boxes had seen Marion Davies (white satin and ermine), Lila Lee (green velvet and chin chilla), Billie Dove (satin, orchids, ermines) pass through the entirely fake Chinese portals of the Fox-owned cinepalace. At 10 p. m. the picture began...