Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, barring a new wave of wage increases, most price rises would be cautious. With U.S. production now up to 135% of the 1935-39 rate-and with inventories up accordingly-no manufacturer wanted to price himself out of the market just when it was turning into a .buyer's market in many items...
Married. Genevieve Sullivan, 29, ex-WAVE, sister of the highly publicized five Sullivan brothers who went down with the cruiser Juneau off Guadalcanal; and Murray W. Davidson, 29; both for the first time; in Chicago...
Finances constitute something of a problem for ex-campaigners at Radcliffe, while at Wellesley the women are quite satisfied with their lot. "After all," said Natalie Park, formerly a Wave lieutenant (j.g.) now at Wellesley, "we can't complain. $65 a month is quite a gift to be getting from the government." The girls agreed that "if someone really ants to go to college she can do it, despite the financial obstacles." At Radcliffe, however, while the griping is at a minimum, Elizabeth Fargo '50, an ex-Navy nurse, claims her monthly subsistence check doesn't go very far even...
...hospitals and medicos become creepingly aware that people have just stopped having babies. From the headquarters of the New York Daily World the special events editor checks the report that the calamity is world wide. Moscow cuts itself off from the world; there are riots in Paris and a wave of vice in Rome; London pleads with its populace to remain calm while a Royal Commission continues its investigation. And while the world sits on the brink of disaster, Mr. Adam, of Tarrytown, N. Y., gives birth to a normal baby girl and Mr. Adam goes to Washington...
Convinced that West was "adjusted" to his College environment and "a reliable personality," Lennox admitted that the absence of brain-wave tests renders any conclusion uncertain. But he saw as sound indications of amnesia the three serious concussions suffered by West, and the testimony of his roommates that he collapsed the morning of the Friday he dropped from sight...