Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industrial purge (TIME, July 8) which started this wave of self-criticism was also going strong. Among its recent targets: "medical racketeers," housing officials who "systematically extorted bribes from working people in need of rooms," and managers caught red-handed in the "antiState practice of falsifying reports" in order to collect bonuses for nonexistent production...
Somehow, the late U.S. strike wave had missed the 65 Great Lakes shipping companies which form one of the nation's key transport links. Last week, the C.I.O.'s National Maritime Union was busy remedying the oversight...
...Kurt Lange and David Weiner of the New York Medical College got the idea while studying blood circulation by means of fluorescein, a tracer dye which, injected into the blood, flows freely with it and glows yellow-green under long-wave ultraviolet light. When they froze rabbit tissues (and later that of human volunteers) they found that after a time the whole frozen area glowed brightly, indicating blood concentration...
Treasurymen were not fooled. The wave of suddenly recovered memories dovetailed with another record: a whopping $1,102,000,000 in extra taxes and penalties collected from taxpayers who had tried to short-change the Government and had got caught at it. Most of the 111,000 on the honesty rolls had merely broken out in uneasy sweat and had kicked in voluntarily to avoid trouble. The sorry fact: never before had so many taxpayers tried to cheat in such...
...Dominican Republic had it worst. Like all the island's north coast the city of Matanzas got a hard jolting. But the tidal wave that followed the shock was the real killer as it swept into town and village. In one place, 40 cockfight fans were trapped under the collapsing tin roof of their circular pit and then drowned by the rush of water. Elsewhere, the nimble skipped to trees and rooftops. In Ciudad Trujillo, where people were celebrating the 450th anniversary of the city's founding by Columbus' brother, five churches were damaged and ordered closed...