Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazi regime. While sharing Rosenberg's views on Aryans and Jews, he nevertheless believes that Europe is through, that the Continent is "doomed never to return from its slump back into the Middle Ages." The German Gotter-dammerung is complete, now it is the Argentine which becomes the wave of the future. Already sheltering a million Germans and Italians within her borders, including several ex-leaders of the SS and Gestapo, Argentina is preparing under Peralta's direction to admit only the "technically superior people of the world" of "the best racial types." What Peralta deems "technically superior people...
...Wave of Indecision. In Washington, Lieut. Commander Bernice Boner decided to end it all, jumped from a 90-ft. Potomac bridge, changed her mind in midair, was glad she could swim so well...
From the swank Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif, came a new wave of raucous sound effects. It was no sign of new life in Walt's celebrated cartoon creatures. It sounded more like Donald Duck in a tizzy of indecision...
Several weeks ago there were rumors of a dog-doping wave, and Scotland Yard's operatives went on the job, with unannounced results. A deputation of Harringay "punters" (heavy bettors) told track officials that if they saw any more funny business, they would wreck the place...
...Atop a wave of postwar business mergers, two whitecaps stood out last week: J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc., one of the oldest names in the U.S. textile industry, wove a new pattern with nine fabric manufacturers.* The proposed combine would put 28 mills under one management, give the company the industry's biggest capitalization: $75 million. The fabric would be loosely woven, with each company keeping its present management and operating as a division of Stevens. Biggest advantage: common ownership of mills making rayon, cotton and woolen fabrics, as a hedge against a collapse in the market...