Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noon today New York City will be firmly in the grip of the season's most torrid heat wave--generated by the American Legion's Societe des Quarante et Huit Chevaux, official custodians of the huge quantity of fun and frolic that is to be showered on the convention of some 200,000 Legionnaires. Only blue-nosed New Yorkers--if such there be--will resent the audible expressions of good, clean fun, and by the time the last Legionnaire entrains for home, New York will have forgotten just who was making all the noise...
What Comes Naturally. Stassen fans, as well as the original Stassen faithful-mostly men & women from Minneapolis, St. Paul and the Minnesota farm lands-applauded this complete absence of foofooraw. They liked to think of their man resting up after the heat wave. It was, after all, the last vacation Harold Stassen was likely to have for a long time. In the months which followed, they were sure he would become leader of what he called a "new, liberal, humanitarian" Republican Party and be elected President of the United States...
...First wave of a probable record total for the Law School, which will number slightly over 2200 students next September, files through registration lines in the Court Room today and tomorrow with a predicted figure...
Like other cold-wave preparations, Toni uses ammonium thioglycollate, which has been criticized by doctors as harmful if used in strong solution. Federal Food & Drug Administration spokesmen agree with Harris' statement that the Toni solution is weak enough to be harmless if directions are properly followed...
Harris, who has long since tired of telling folks that Wishbone is no nickname, is the son of a prosperous St. Paul woolen merchant. The year after his graduation in 1936, he picked up a beauty-supply business for $5,000. In 1941, when cold waves began to attract attention in beauty shops, Harris began wholesaling them. Two years later, some of his pioneering competitors began experimenting with home-wave kits. The first one, which sold for 59?, was a big seller, but it nearly ruined the market because it was unsatisfactory. Harris kept trying, finally came up with Toni...