Word: flooded
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...biggest drains on U.S. gold -more than all the money spent by military dependents-is the flood of tourists who flock to Europe each year and leave behind them some $600 million. One way to get the gold back is to lure European tourists to the U.S. Two years ago President Eisenhower named 1960 as "Visit U.S.A. Year" and promised potential travelers that "all of us here will do everything in our power to make your visit pleasant and memorable...
...record number of applicants will flood the College's Admissions Office, Fred L. Glimp '50, Dean of Admissions, predicted yesterday. In spite of the expected 5,500-5,700 applications, however, Glimp plans no major changes in admissions policy...
...Taken at the Flood, Gunther...
Rivers, except for the big navigable ones, are a little out of date. So dam builders in the Western states are turning them into strings of placid lakes, stocked with fish, vacationers and beer cans. Only unregenerate wildlife cranks doubt that progress is served in the interests of flood control, irrigation, electrification and the outboard motor industry. Author John Graves is no crank, and from the evidence of his book, he is something of a fatalist. When he heard that a section of the Brazos River valley in the west Texas scrub country, where he grew up, was soon...
Gable's smile spread wider than a river in flood-until Carole Lombard was killed in an air crash during the early months of World War II. Soon afterward he en listed in the Army Air Forces, flew combat missions in B-17s out of Peterborough, England, functioning as both the head of an aerial film unit and as a turret gunner...