Word: wave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consumption of gasoline, soft drinks, railroad tickets and many another commodity, but it was evident that extraordinary weather had made substantial losses and profits for businessmen. And last week for the second in succession, most of the U. S. east of the Rockies lay sweltering under a heat & humidity wave...
...Britain's year-old proposal for slicing the Holy Land into British-mandated, Arabic and Jewish States, members of His Majesty's Government's technical commission last week sailed from Haifa for London. Their pilgrimage to the Holy Land had been marked by an intense wave of Arab-Jewish terrorism. As the members departed, Britain's Colonial Secretary, youthful Malcolm MacDonald, arrived by air, spent two days secretly inspecting the security measures Britain has been forced to take...
Miserable though it made people on land, the "humiture wave" (see p. 9) brought joy to seagoing sportsmen, especially to anglers after big game fish off Montauk Point, L. I. There, unaccustomed water temperatures (as high as 76°) brought Gulf Stream fish out of their normal ranges. Last week a blue runner was caught, and Sportsman S. Clay Williams Jr. hooked & landed the first blue marlin ever taken off Montauk on rod & reel, a 215-pounder...
First complaint against WLW came before the original license expired from the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission. The 500-kw. power emanating from the Crosley Colossus interfered with a neighboring wave length assigned to station CFRB (Toronto). WLW raised a new antenna designed to control the direction of its broadcasting, turned its terrific voice away from Canada. But in the U. S. a different kind of complaint arose. Although WLW's license continued to be extended for six-month periods, it remained officially experimental. Owner Crosley was, nevertheless, in business - so much so that he raised WLW charges...
...Walküre (Sat. 11 a.m., NBC-Blue). Part of Act I by short wave from the Bayreuth Wagner Festival...