Word: waves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard's overtaxed medical resources were again called into play over the week-end as the University sank for the third time, beneath a tidal wave of German measles cases...
...Harvard's overtaxed medical resources were again called into play over the week-end as the University sank for the third time, beneath a tidal wave of German measles cases...
...Harvard's overtaxed medical resources were again called into play over the week-end as the University sank for the third time, beneath a tidal wave of German measles cases...
...Distance Building of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in Manhattan, President Walter Sherman Gifford picked up a receiver, asked to speak to Vice President Theodore Gazlay Miller. Fifty feet away in another office sat Vice President Miller. But the operator plugged President Gifford in on Dixon, Calif. There a short-wave radio transmitter amplified his voice some millions of times, "sprayed" it over the Pacific. At Java a Dutch station picked up the Gifford voice, blew it up another billion times, broadcast it on to Amsterdam. Under the North Sea it went by cable to London, then Rugby. Sprayed overseas again...
...since outgrown its dependence on the tobacco industry: only about 30% of its business is in that field. Specializing in the art of packaging, it now makes anything from wine caps to book jackets, from ham wrappers to ginger ale labels, from candy box covers to containers for permanent wave pads. Lately Reynolds has added building materials, and it is in that division that the company is presumably about to expand. Chief building product is aluminum foil insulation, which because of its shiny finish minimizes transfer of heat by radiation. Most building insulation simply reduces heat transfer through conduction...