Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deal with the wave of future radiation, sanitary engineers should have Geiger counters and know how to use them. They will have to watch carefully all producers and users of radioactive material. They will have to make plumbers wear rubber gloves when cleaning "active" drain traps. They must test rivers, water supplies and sewers to make sure that no radioactivity has slipped...
...HOLLOW OF THE WAVE (318 pp.) -Edward Newhouse-Sloane...
...novel, The Hollow of the Wave, Author Newhouse, 36, has jumped the party line, but he seems to have lost his novelist's direction in the process. Neil Miller, his hero and narrator, is a cynical ex-hobo (Newhouse rode the rods in his day, too) who works in a New York publishing house; his aim is to save $1,000 and escape from it all on a tramp steamer. Larry, the publisher, is a serious, decent, do-gooding young millionaire who wants to put out good books but is completely dominated by his Communist staff...
Long before the end, readers may ask themselves the same question. The Hollow of the Wave fails to explain the social dilemma of its drifting characters and falls equally short of lighting up the sources of their individual despair. Even the Communists' victory over a bewildered liberal seems of no more interest to Author Newhouse than it does to his hero, who acts as if he expected defeat all along and manages to shrug it off. Having dived from his old Marxist crest, Novelist Newhouse himself seems still to be washing about in the hollow of the wave...
...wave of Wall Street's enthusiasm over television, the stock of Farnsworth Television & Radio Corp. rode high. In December, it was one of the 20 most active stocks on the Big Board, and held steady at about 7 points, despite the company's report of a $724,000 loss for the six months ending Oct. 31. Last week a New York Stock Exchange clerk looked over a registration statement which Farnsworth had filed with SEC for a new stock issue of 270,000 shares. He noticed something odd. It showed a loss...