Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Researcher E. L. Manning of General Electric told listeners at the Engineers Club. Philadelphia, last week: "We have learned to build vacuum tubes which broadcast such a short-length wave (1 in.) that people in the neighborhood will have their blood temperatures raised...
...individual star of the meet from the prospective scoring point of view was Northwestern's captain Al Schwartz. This stellar wave-cutter tied the existing mark in the century both in his heat and in the semi-final, and he came within one-fifth of last year's record performance in the 220. He seems like a certain point scorer in both events this evening and it would not be surprising to those who saw his clean-cut, powerful stroke in the trials if he were the outstanding performer of the meet...
...wave of the long fight against cancer, which has been gaining impetus in the past few years, last week reached the U. S. Senate. Grave-faced members of the Commerce Committee and its subcommittee on cancer listened to stories of cancer ravages on the population (over 100,000 a year), possible cures, the need for a national clinic...
During 1929 a great merger wave swept through U. S. banking, causing special activity in Manhattan where many a big combine was effected. With the stockmarket break, an abrupt end came to the move, its finale being the collapse of the National City-Corn Exchange merger. Last week there were rumors of another deal of first magnitude, and bankers predicted that the merger wave will soon be in full force again...
...concern to all the people than the relationship which these properties and natural resources shall bear to the masses of the people in the U. S." The Senator also found that Mr. Hughes's plea that General Electric Co. had a vested right in perpetuity in a broadcasting wave length temporarily assigned it, was "a shocking proposition." Mr. Hughes's views, contended the Senator, "are not views that ought to be incorporated in our legal and economic system...