Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...induced householders to spend $100,000,000 on home renovation. But the Federal Reserve's latest index of industrial production stood at 74%, almost the exact level of a year earlier, while NRA, without last year's Man of the Year Hugh S. Johnson, broke like a wave on the beach; its price-fixing efforts abandoned; its collective bargaining feature challenged in the courts; its funeral oration read by Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors: "Today the magic possibilities of industrial regimentation and the so-called planned economy no longer cast the spell of yesterday-that spell...
ADDING to the ever growing wave of criticism against the encumbent administration, Mr. Neilson, writing from the viewpoint of a Single Taxer, scores the theories advanced by Tugwell, Chase, and Soule. He writes straightforwardly and at times amusingly. It is difficult to agree with his main thesis but many of his observations are keen and his attacks spirited...
...about a London police official who shot himself because he was tortured by an "anxiety neurosis." The U. S. reader discovering an "Overseas Edition" for the first time, might well suppose from the succeeding 20 pages of rapine and violence that Britain had been struck by an unprecedented crime wave. A vast police court blotter, the pink pages of News Of The World shrieked...
...selection of radios, they showed better sense. A.C. D.C. sets were favored for their all-round usefulness. In this group, short wave sets were most popular...
...December 8 at 3 o'clock E.S.T. and 8 o'clock English time, the debate will be carried ever the Atlantic Ocean by short wave between the National Broadcasting Company and the British Broadcasting Company...