Word: levels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canada's fourth largest city (pop. 320,000). At least 10,000 houses and eight of greater Winnipeg's 75 square miles were already flooded; traffic on two of the city's key bridges was cut off, dividing the area into semi-isolated segments. The water level stood twelve feet above the point of first flooding. The city's vital power stations were entrenched behind dikes more than six feet high...
...this week the river level appeared to be stabilizing although the danger was still grave. As relief operations gathered momentum, Winnipeggers had an urgent question: how could future floods be prevented? Flood experts had a grim reply: they probably cannot. The cost of permanent diking would be prohibitive, and in any case it might be an engineering impossibility in the flat Red River valley. Once in 25, 50 or 100 years, the valley would probably have to take...
Since early March, Howell has ordered seedlings of silver iodide smoke from the ground level. This method was also tried between 1 and 4:15 p.m. Saturday. Howell said that there were two showers east of the Catskills when he began seeding but that "there were no showers over the Catskills until after the cloud-seeding...
This announcement concerns only scholars at the Post-Ph.D. level, Monro said. No announcement has yet been made of the conditions of applications for 1951-1952 graduate students...
...flatware none of anything making a matched set. I am forced to use my own things, but I cannot avoid the charge any more than I can get all the services which (according to the listing with rent control) I am supposed to have. The maintenance is on a level with the rest...