Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over the Buckley murder, Detroit became turbulent, terrified. Governor Fred Warren Green flew from Holland to Detroit, started a general investigation, threatened martial law until the city's crime-wave abated...
...night last week to find the world crashing about their heads. Straight across the country's "ankle," from Naples on the west to Foggia and Bari on the east, the earth heaved in the most terrible disaster since a quake plus a tidal wave snuffed out the lives of 77,000 Sicilians and Calabrians at Messina in 1908. More than 3,500 were reported killed last week, and how many thousands were injured no man knew. For four days after the quake the earth that had leaped in convulsion quivered with minor earthquakes like a frightened horse...
Civic officials of Berlin reported last week that the capital's recent heat wave (TIME, July 21) pushed motor vehicle registrations up to 102,706, a record...
...England. Rumania alone, being in constant fear of a Soviet attack to recover Bessarabia (which Rumania seized from Russia after the War), has installed an anti-Red broadcasting station. Whenever watchful officials of this station hear Moscow broadcasting in Rumanian they turn loose their own station on the same wave length and go BLAH, BLAH, BLAH...
...first time, a U. S. Open was broadcast hole by hole. A Columbia announcer sat at a portable short-wave microphone back of the eighteenth tee and sent off reports brought to him by spry Boy Scouts...