Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another way was supplied by Nature. The dust bowl of 1934-35 and the great drought of 1936 cut farm surpluses. But a fresh wave of poverty swept families westward from their deadlands to enact the saga of the Okies and tread the Grapes of Wrath...
...important painters since Cezanne and perhaps the best of all masters of watercolor. An individualist and mostly self-taught and indifferent to theories, he sought at the outset of his career for abbreviated personal symbols of color and line-a green triangle for a pine, a zigzag for a wave, symbols comparable to Chinese characters...
Lusty Infant. Such high-flying merchandising methods are commonplace in Dallas' fast-growing fashion trade. The industry got its big start in the mid-1930s, when the wave of U.S. unionization sent many a small garmentmaker seeking refuge in open-shop Dallas; soon it had an $18-million-a-year volume. It concentrated on sport clothes and other casual wear in big demand in mild-weathered outdoor-loving Texas. With World War II, the Dallas garment industry hit the big time; last year it provided jobs for 10,000 and produced a sales volume of $60 million...
...Elbe Line. Only two years ago gloomy Pentagon strategists were convinced that nothing could stop the Red wave from rolling at will to the Channel. The U.S. had only a few ready troops of its own; the French had half a million men under arms, but did they have the will to fight? At a time when the U.S. was publicly assuring its allies of military aid and protection, some Pentagon brasshats were talking privately of a retreat to the Pyrenees. But by last week the Pentagon had placed a new estimate on Western endurance: the line of the Elbe...
Thirteen permanent University faculty appointees will wave good-bye to lecture platform and office this June and August. Among those retiring officers...