Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME broadcast started. . . . I was listening intently to all the news of the inauguration. Senate meetings, etc., etc., which are always so vividly portrayed in the TIME broadcast when suddenly my clock fell to the floor at my feet and the floor rose and fell like an ocean wave, the book case full of books toppled over, plaster fell from the walls and ceiling, dishes crashed out of the cupboard; pots, pans, and food fell off the kitchen shelves...
...Goebbels, having at his disposal German radio stations of sufficient power to encircle the entire world with Hitler propaganda, said that he would begin by putting on the air a daily short-wave broadcast in English & German aimed at listeners throughout the U. S. and Canada. At first the programs will stress German music and such-proceeding gradually to Enlightenment and Propaganda when a sufficiently large audience has been built...
...anything but a pleasure. When photographers at last week's press conference requested him to "look this way." he said no, he would rather look toward Miss Lee Krieselman of the Wichita Beacon, one of the few women present. Another time, out of doors, he demurred at waving his hand for the cameras again because he was "afraid of developing a permanent wave." When his wrinkled Secretary Louis Howe bought a new suit, the President issued a playful "special bulletin" to the Press. Last week, when Radio Commentator Edwin C. Hill broadcast over C. B. S. an approving report...
...legislatures of 20 states were last week considering legalized race betting. Causes of this sudden wave of liberalizing seemed to be several: an extension of the anti-Puritanism that brought about the proposed 21st Amendment; the spread of interest in horse racing due to better management, better horses; the prospect of state revenues from betting. Wherever there is pari-mutuel betting, the state takes a percentage of the total amount wagered. Pari-mutuel betting is legal in Maryland, Kentucky, Illinois. Louisiana, Nevada. Montana, and, since 1931, Florida. This year, bets at Florida's No. 1 track, Hialeah Park, totaled...
...Prices. Anticipating a buying wave when the bank holiday passed, many prices moved up, giving the lie to the bearish signs of stoppages. Meat prices made the stiffest advance but yielded when housewives refused to increase purchases. Wheat prices were generally up in Winnipeg and other world markets. Cotton moved up a bit at Liverpool. These half-promises of better returns for farmers gave a hopeful indication that farm buying power might be bettered, mail order business and farm machinery business improved...