Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge police, still baffled by two weekend robberies and one assault, are today concerned with a wave of vandalism. To combat the outbreak, Police Chief John R. King has ordered a special alert, directed primarily at route and cruising officers...
Western chancelleries hoped that the overseas talks would be more than just another regional conference. ECA and the North Atlantic Treaty had arrested the first wave of Communist expansion on the European front. The Red tide, meanwhile, had rolled unchecked over much of Asia. Western diplomats were learning that the front against Communism was meaningless unless worked out on a global basis...
Designers of airplane propellers used to weep into their blueprints every time a jet plane roared over the plant. They feared that the fierce little jets, which have no propellers, were the wave of the future. These days the prop designers are more cheerful. The performance of Allison's XT-4O turboprop engine (5,500 h.p.) has made many airplane companies think once more in terms of propellers. The prop men are sure that propellers, drastically redesigned, can keep up even with the fastest airplanes...
...minor crime wave which started late Thursday night, still had Cambridge Police bafiled last night. Three events, including an assault, and two robberies remained unsolved this morning, as detectives continued their hunt for two teenagers and two slightly older...
...boost earnings still more, confident P. & G. was test-selling a batch of new products last week. Among them: Cheer, a synthetic laundry detergent; Joy, a liquid cleanser for dishes; and Wondra, a "washoff" cold cream. P. & G. also plans to invade the fast-growing home-permanent-wave field with a product called Lilt...