Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make their programs available to troops all over the globe, the Radio Section had to develop many special facilities. The U.S. Army network now includes 29 short-wave stations; 138 standard-wave stations on United Nations soil and in the theaters of action; 37 U.S. expeditionary-force stations, 6,500 phonograph-radio kits issued to troops at embarkation ports...
...would have been all right if all we had to create was ripple, but it's turning into quite a tidal wave, and if we don't watch out we're going to be washed ashore. RIPTIDE's the name of the mimeographed paper put out each week or so for the WAVES at Radcliffe, so that this column is in a sense a digest of that, neatly trimmed at the edges and censored to meet, the less tolerant gaze of our male confreres...
...Freedom Forum: A transcription from a short-wave BBC broadeast...
That even a good Government order can boomerang was all too evident last week: a what-will-come-next buying wave skyrocketed department-store sales to 45% above 1942 in the first week after OPA's shoe-rationing order (TIME, Feb. 15). Despite Government assurances that rationing of other clothing was not in the cards, customers bought up retail clothing stocks as if they were the last they would ever see. The U.S. public had not yet learned that the best way to avoid rationing is to avoid overbuying in the first place...
Immediate results were a spate of hartals (closing of shops), factory strikes, one bombing which killed three men, the start of a wave of riots. The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry clearly feared that the fast might bring a complete disruption of national life: the Federation asked that Gandhi be given his "unconditional release...