Word: wave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young debonair who is stepping out for a summer's evening should check up on his checks. Check-mating the fashion scene is a wave of box-like designs. In checks with plaids, the flannel-finish jacket of extremely light weight, two-or three-button model, is being worn with slacks of tropical worsted, cut along very trim lines...
Deductible Comfort. Air-conditioning manufacturers, who do something about the weather as well as complain about it, say that hot and cold spells still throw seasonal estimates out of kilter; e.g., demand rose 200% during a six-week heat wave last July and August. But the trend to bigger, more expensive units has sharply reduced impulse buying. Government agencies also have boosted non-seasonal equipment sales. For example, the Federal Housing Administration recently approved inclusion of central air-conditioning in basic home-mortgage loans. The Internal Revenue Service permits sufferers from hay fever, asthma and heart disease to deduct...
...prevent this upset, the United States must regain the confidence of the Icelandic people. Despite this country's concern, the Government must not wave its finger at Iceland, nor can it afford to threaten the nation with any "agonizing reappraisal." A State Department mission should be sent to Iceland to talk to political leaders and attempt to pacify their grievances. Troops and workers for the base could be taught to get along better with the people. NATO economists should be sent to Iceland to attempt to alleviate inflation and employment difficulties there. In addition, the United States should increase...
...week (without details) by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. They are pondering two facts: 1) the rain that fell on Shikoku Island on March 24 was the most intensely radioactive that has yet fallen on Japan; 2) none of the government's 13 microbarograph stations recorded any shock wave...
...modeled after equipment used in military air-warning networks. Raytheon engineers are confident that they can track large commercial airliners, flying 70,000 ft. up, 200 miles away. When rain clouds cut off the view of a distant airliner, the radar can switch to a special "circularly polarized" wave that is reflected differently by spherical raindrops and the metal surfaces of wings and fuselage. This gimmick makes an airliner visible even behind a rain cloud. Another gimmick makes the radar blind to all objects that are not moving, such as mountain peaks...