Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, is an awesome tidal wave of granite which rises above Atlanta. For more than twelve years various persons have schemed to carve upon its surface an overwhelming memorial to the South of the Civil War. General Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis were to ride in mighty panoply across the stony bluff, surrounded by acres of sculpture representing the Southern armies. From the plain below, children of unimagined generations would stare upward at these heroically chiseled warriors of ancient days. But the men who were to shape these titanic figures have been only human, vexatious, quibbling...
Thus, with a glad hand, did Governor Young wave aside any little unpleasantness about speculation. The Wall Street bulls beamed with relief. The press was amazed. Said Writer B. C. Forbes, bluntly, in the New York (Hearst) American: "He said nothing. Either he was muzzled by the Washington powers that be, or more likely, he muzzled himself. A high-powered shell proved to be a dud. Politics, presidential elections, are responsible for more than making strange bed-fellows...
...stamp out the crime wave, Brattle Square Station has instituted nightly drives for rounding up offenders. The drag-net captured 32 undergraduate violators during the last week...
These demands put the Federal Commission in quandary. Wireless experts figure that 208 short wave wireless channels can be used for communications within the U. S. Of that number 43 are now being used by foreign countries and so are forbidden to U. S. commercializers. Not enough channels are available to satisfy even the present four petitioners...
...Montgomery Ward & Co. and Cudahy Packing Co. both asked for short wave channels to transact business between their branches over the country. Anderson, Clayton & Co., potent cotton brokers, asked for a channel between their Houston and Manhattan offices...