Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gifts. In Osceola, Neb., county fair officials offered a free permanent wave to the champion woman chicken-raiser, a free haircut to the man who bought the most bonds. Winners: curly-haired Addie Carter, bald Al Nicklaus...
...Written in a little over 30 hours by 50 journalists-"50 working reporters called from golf courses and football games, from unfinished mid-day dinners and symphony concerts and favorite radio programs"-it is a collection of shorthand notes recording the emotion that swept the U.S. in a tidal wave as the Arizona burned, the Oklahoma capsized and U.S. soldiers & sailors died in action for the first time in 23 years. The reporters: the News Bureau Staff of TIME, LIFE, and FORTUNE. Their assignment: the people of the U.S. Public-opinion polls could record the shift of ideas...
Already familiar to College and short-wave audiences for his lectures on propaganda and current affairs, Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, will speak to the nation Sunday afternoon over a countrywide radio hook...
...Athletics, therefore, must be pursued in spite of the war," said Harlow, "if we are going to win it. The softness of our country was greately increased by the wave of pacifism after the last war. Games which aroused anger were discouraged, for the world was supposed to live by love...
...James Paul Warburg. It has four functions: 1) supplying U.S. information to Britons, a job to be directed by able, young New York Timesman James B. Reston who spent four years in England covering British affairs; 2) conducting political (i.e., propaganda) warfare in enemy countries; 3) rebroadcasting U.S. short-wave programs from Britain; 4) improving relations between U.S. soldiers and Britons...