Word: wave
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through the West Gate. Late that afternoon, the first wave of C-47 transports airlifting marshals from Memphis set down at the Oxford airport. Wearing white helmets and orange riot vests stuffed with tear-gas canisters, 167 marshals loaded into waiting Army trucks and chugged off to the campus half a mile away. At 5 p.m.-it was then 7 p.m. in Washington -marshals surrounded the Lyceum, the old, red brick administration building where Meredith was to register...
Like other shipbuilders, the Swedes are not happy with their current earnings, and many of the contracts they are taking on now will show them no real gains. But from the hard lessons they are learning in the lean years, they will be ready to ride the next big wave of world shipbuilding to solid profits. In the meantime, says Götaverken's Managing Director Hilding Nielsen: "We have to build big if we are to survive...
With the country's postwar prosperity, Oetker found himself swimming in profits as famished West Germans hurled themselves into what they called the "eating wave." Trying to put his profits to work, he dropped $250,000 in an ill-starred try at moviemaking. "I didn't even get to meet a beautiful movie star,'' he recalls ruefully. He also branched into banking, partly to finance a chocolate stockpile for Oetker-packaged puddings, took over Hermann Lampe, a private bank, and Frankfurt's Braubank. The latter's big holdings in beer companies put Oetker...
...first buoy, Mosbacher's lead had been reduced to two boat lengths, a bare 12 sec. By the second eight-mile mark, it was still only 14 sec. Then Gretel and Sturrock stole the day. His spinnaker ballooning firm and white, Sturrock caught a great, wind-driven wave under his stern and rode it like a surfboarder on a Pacific comber. As the Australians surged past, Mosbacher's Yanks heard a roaring war whoop booming out across the water. Weatherly tried to recover, but she snapped her spinnaker pole -and then it was too late. Gretel was home...
...tinkering for years with breakthrough inventions that, disappointingly, have yet to appear on the market: ultrasonic washers that would clean without water, thermoelectric devices that would use power to produce heat and cold with no moving parts, portable radio telephones. Any of these would help to generate a new wave of consumer buying and melt unemployment...