Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Freedom. The Turks are enjoying every minute of the new freedom. The government is riding a wave of popularity...
Then the Red organizers overreached themselves. A wave of Communist tax riots and wildcat strikes shocked Japanese. Communists were suspected of murdering Railways President Sadanori Shimoyama. As U.S.-sponsored economic policies gradually brought prices down, unionists began to distrust Red propaganda...
WHRB could not keep its former wave length as it had no legal rights, and thus no FCC license. The Faculty Committee on Undergraduate Organizations granted the station permission to incorporate before summer vacation last year, upon request from the network...
What swept the market along was a wave of stock splits, which always make the market more inviting. On the same day that Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) announced plans to give stockholders 2 shares for 1, the stock jumped 1 3/4 to 100⅝. Next day Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway proposed a similar split, and its common soared 5½ to 165. All told, there were a dozen stock splits or stock dividends proposed or approved last week. Only a week before, three big oil companies-Phillips, Gulf and Texas-had split their shares 2 for 1, adding...
...Horton, director of the Navy's WAVE's during the war, suggested drafting women into the armed services to fill posts which do not specifically require men. Jordan held that women should not be drafted "at this stage" because they were already making their maximum contribution to the economy...