Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born on Manhattan's Second Avenue, was farmed out by his widowed mother to a German baker named Gus Schmall. He went to school for a while, ran off to sea, grew up and began having a chronic dream. In the dream Little Joe -now Big Joe-waved his hairy paw, whereupon the great ports of New York, Boston, Marseilles, San Francisco, Antwerp were paralyzed. All over the world shipping was paralyzed. Then the President of the U.S. called Joe and said: "Joe, you have paralyzed the world by a wave of your hand. What do you want?" Said...
Occupational Hazard. In Manhattan. ex-Con John Boulter, picked up for carrying a gun, explained that the crime wave had him worried...
Tito, after his fashion, had been reciprocating. Last week a wave of political arrests in Yugoslavia rounded up people suspected of being too friendly with the Americans and British. Reports came from Belgrade that more reservists, in smart new Russian-type uniforms, were being called up. No Yugoslav dared be seen at a British or American information center...
...Reserve Supply Corps School which had moved here from Washington, D.C. Under Captain McIntosh's command, the school expanded from its first class of 35 officers, which graduated in July, 1941, to an enrollment of 2300 officers with branches at Wellesley and Babson Institute, and with a division for WAVE officers at Radcliffe...
...concluded Mr. Voorhees: "It is clear that wage rises have greatly exceeded the production required to offset them and hence must be covered in an abnormal price rise. But the first abnormal wage and price rise starts a wave of other increases. You can see it coming today in thousands of items. And then where are we? We are on our way to the final squeeze by the customer-for the customer always has his own ceiling price...