Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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City police yesterday frowned upon a reported plan of President Jordan's to crack a Moors Hall crime wave, and asked to handle the case themselves...
...really wanted for their money was not bulls, but beef. The ruckus at the ring, in defiance of Franco's rule, was another symptom of Spain's rising anger with the Franco administration. Its chief causes: high prices, black marketeers and official corruption. The strike wave began in Barcelona (TIME, March 19) and Pamplona (TIME, May 21). Last week Madrid followed with a mass demonstration, its first since the civil war. Chain letters and clandestine pamphlets touched off 300,000 to 400,000 workers on a buyers' strike. They stayed away from buses, subways, shops, bars...
Wall Street's bull market has been faltering ever since it hit its 20-year peak on May 3. Last week, the bull did more than falter; it fell. At midweek a wave of selling struck the market just before noon, drove some stocks down as much as six points. Before that day's close, the market got back some of its losses, and it held steady to week's end. But its old, heady vigor seemed to be gone...
...Navy plane, a Privateer, dropped low over the water, barely 150 feet above the surface. Looking from the tiny ports, it seemed that even a moderate-sized wave could reach up and capsize us. Lieut. Bill McCord, at the controls, swore beautifully and expressively...
Coming as they did, the new cutbacks may not hit industry too hard. With inventories piled sky-high and sales lagging in many industries, plenty of manufacturers may welcome an excuse to slow down production. But if another wave of scare buying starts when the top-heavy stocks are trimmed later in the year, the new cutbacks may hit consumers and businessmen hard...