Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January 11, 1930, the Ensley Bank of Birmingham, Ala., failed. Since then the wave of banking suspension has increased. Last week the Federal Reserve reported that for the first eleven months 981 banks with deposits of $515,486,000 were suspended, which compares to 372 banks with deposits of $129,000,000 in the relatively quiet year of 1928, 132 banks with deposits of $233,000,000 in the panic year of 1907. Preliminary estimates place the 1930 total at 1,121 banks with $700,000,000 in deposits. Of these failures, the greatest part has occurred in recent months...
...Toulouse cafe. A little influence kept him out of the trenches, got him a berth in a munitions factory. After the War he started speculating. Financiers doubted last week whether he ever actually made much money, but with all the nerve in the world he rode high on the wave of French inflation, established Banque Oustric et Cie, later was able to buy control of the Banque Adam, the oldest bank in France. Then his method was the old established one of buying out a number of companies in the same industry-shoe companies were at first his favorite-consolidating...
Probably some wave force, akin to light, electric or heat waves, is the ultimate essential. Probably that unknown force cooks or orients the primordial elements into the mutual relations they must have to be "alive." Such is the path of theory on which Dr. Crile, who believes that Life is an electrical phenomenon (TIME, Aug. 30, 1926), has been toiling...
...storms that amounted practically to one continuous storm. He had even held a camera steady enough to photograph the deck after a sea broke over the bow. Pinnacle and compass were washed overboard. Water poured in, set the food afloat in the galley. Five times a tilt of a wave threw the green-faced cook onto the hot stove. The men slept in their oilskins. For 18 hours Shamrock plowed through the Gulf Stream under bare poles. A seam opened in the delicate bow, bashed 'by tons of water every minute. For days on end two men were lashed...
...great book is written in mathematical language.' So true is it that no one except a mathematician need ever hope fully to understand those branches of science which try to un ravel universe-the theory fundamental of nature of relativity, the the theory of quanta and the wave-mechanics...