Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunbaked Fresno (traditional midstate meeting ground for California politicians) and start Wallace's name toward a spot on the state's Democratic presidential primary ballot. The rally would be the first formal move in the nation to nominate Wallace. It might even start a third-party tidal wave...
...thousand miles away, in Bombay harbor, the 400-ton coastal vessel Ramdas, its decks crowded with more than 700 people, headed out for the one-hour run to Rewaz. A wall of water swept in from the open sea, struck the Ramdas a reeling blow. A second huge wave crashed down on the decks, sweeping the screaming passengers into the sea. No lifeboats were launched, no radio messages sent. Clinging to the floating wreckage were 179 survivors. In exactly two minutes, 563 people were lost...
...evening falls, the potato seekers drift back to the Autobahn. Some have full knapsacks; others are emptyhanded. A father and three daughters wave down a passing American car. They are filthy. For two days they have tramped across plowed fields, barefooted, to save their shoes. They have had one meal of bread and water since they left Berlin. "We got nothing," said the eldest daughter. "The peasants told us we had nothing they wanted in trade." The youngest girl, twelve years old, falls immediately into a deep sleep, clutching a six-week-old puppy which they got because a farmer...
...last week, the fear of a new wave of inflation from the coal wage pact became great enough to bring a special plea from President Truman to businessmen. He asked industrialists to withhold immediate increases in the price of coal and in the price of steel, "until the actual increases in costs are determined. It is only reasonable," said he, "to ask coal and steel producers to wait until a fair test has been made...
...Wave. In a few months, under the heavy buying of the British and Irish, wholesale prices at public auctions in the Far East soared as much as 200%. U.S. companies held off, confident that their nine months' supply on hand would see them through the flurry. But prices stayed up and U.S. supplies shrank. U.S. companies had to start buying again...