Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieutenant Cunningham of the City Police, reached at headquarters last night, saw no signs of a wave of thefts in the two incidents, and predicted that the cars will be found on some direct in Cambridge in a day or so." He added that he thought the thefts were the work of amateur "joyriders...
...country's biggest steelmakers decided to jack up some of their prices again. Cried the Wall Street Journal: "It would appear that the steel managers had concluded that the country was still riding the inflation wave and that they had better ride with it while it lasts...
...South Korean dock town of Pusan. Rail and telegraph lines were cut. One twelve-car train was wrecked, and 50 locomotives were put out of action by saboteurs. In scattered clashes with South Korean police, 47 were killed, 150 arrested. At the height of the three-day wave, a group calling itself the "General Strike Committee for South Korea" demanded that both the U.S. and the U.N. Commission (there to prepare U.N.-supervised Korean elections...
...surge of frantic economizing. Editor Michael Straight, whose family has footed the New Republic's steady deficit since 1914, had given up the dream of a slick-paper product with lavish displays of half-tones, big names and special art work. Gone, in the undertow of the economy wave, was a flock of staffers. The staff was still bigger than in pre-Wallace days, but the survivors had that worried "who's next" look. The trouble was that the magazine had been staffed and geared up for a 330,000 sale with advertising income to match, but printing...
...Chicago grain pits were nervous. Wheat and corn prices "had been slipping for two weeks (TIME, Feb. 9), and traders were afraid it meant trouble. On Tuesday last week the trouble came. It swept in on a wave of selling in corn...