Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...came from a Roman Catholic priest. He suggested to Presbyterian Curtis a few months ago that people do not know enough about euthanasia or what the real issues are. Curtis decided to enlighten his readers as he has before on cancer quacks, police and psychology. All have brought a flood of mail from medical men. The letter that Curtis prizes most came from Dr. Charles S. Cameron, medical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society Inc. Wrote Dr. Cameron: "May I compliment you on the splendid service you are rendering the public...
Only six weeks ago, Henry Ford II had promised that he would try to hold down the price of his cars. But last week, seeing a flood of price rises all around him, young Henry took his finger out of the hole in the dike. He boosted prices on the company's 1951 models an average of 5.5% (from $87.50 on the cheapest Ford to $185 on Lincoln Cosmopolitan convertibles). Same day, General Motors Corp. raised prices an average of almost 5% on its 1951 models. These were the first price boosts among the auto industry...
Even in the aircraft industry, which got the biggest share ($5 billion) of the obligations so far, the step-up in production has been hardly noticeable. The industry is still awaiting the word on what types of planes will be ordered. Despite the flood of pictures of production lines (see cut), the lines are the same ones in operation before Korea-and they are not moving much faster. Even if the industry meets the Defense Department's goal of a rate of 6,000 planes a year by the end of 1951, it will still only match the production...
...that time he has been arrested twice. He has been threatened with commitment to a sanitarium because of his annual flood pamphlets to Eli freshmen, U. S. Congressmen, and Presidents, advocating the principles...
...Princeton, the former is usually the case. Princeton freshmen are required to wear little black dinks, (the fields of hazing and spirit are hopelessly enmeshed). At the end of September, a flood of dinkless frosh swept into Princeton's Commons, in direct violation of an old Nassan tradition. Sophomores rallied round the supper table, linked arms, and shouted "No Dinks, No Dinner!" One freshman hit his head against a Gothic wall, but the fight reeled its way onto the steps of Nassau Hall, where the sophomores overwhelmed the freshmen. The Daily Princetonian listed six freshmen who were subsequently treated...