Word: wave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor still had a seller's market. The first wave of unemployment after V-J day turned out to be a mere ripple. Even now there were only 2,000,000 unemployed according to estimates of the Committee for Economic Development. Official figures might be higher, but the number of real unemployment was certainly not yet large...
...Gross who got Lockheed to perform something like production miracles because he could airily wave away engineers who said that miracles couldn't be done. Back in 1942, he cannily realized that the jet plane was just over the horizon. The Army turned down his offer to build one, figuring that it would be developed too late for World War II. Gross ordered development work, anyhow...
...disappointments weighed heavy on Harry Truman: 1) Congressional inaction on the whole program of Government planning-for-prosperity which he had inherited from Franklin Roosevelt; 2) labor's bitter criticism of the fact-finding, cooling-off proposal which he had hoped would end the current wave of strikes and threatened strikes...
...another heaving expanse of ocean the heavy cruiser Portland, en route from Le Havre with 1,159 troops, had two of her G.I. passengers killed by a giant wave which crashed through a hangar door, a third washed overboard, and 52 injured, 22 of them so badly that they were put ashore to be flown home...
...King Carol of Rumania and his Madame Lupescu paraded down the mosaic sidewalks that curl along the slim half-moon of Copacabana beach. Tens of thousands of cariocas, impelled by a summer heat wave, dashed into the Atlantic's cool, green breakers. At Argentina's Mar del Plata, the Unzues and the Martinez de Hozes and all the other upper-crusters sunned themselves at private beach clubs, far from the madding crowd, and seldom swam (the water was too cold...