Word: waves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ordnance Laboratory, Silver Spring, Md., has built a radio transmitter that fits into its nose and leaves room to spare. The transmitter has one transistor, a coil half an inch across, and a mercury battery considerably smaller than a dime. When the shell is fired, it sends out a wave that tells how the shell is spinning and whether it is wobbling in its flight...
Just before Christmas, a wave of mysterious illness struck Canklow's children, caused headaches, jaundice and anemia! Twenty-five children were rushed to hospitals, dozens more were treated at home. On Christmas Eve, doctors took 200 blood tests, diagnosed the plague as lead poisoning. Then they checked back, learned that every stricken child came from a house where the battery cases had been used for fuel...
States & Regions. In Florida, a special council of educators has issued a preliminary report on how to meet the wave of enrollments. Between 1930 and 1950, said the council, Florida's student population grew faster (561%) than that of any other state, will probably jump another 300% to 106,000 by 1970. The council's tentative recommendations: that the state 1) set up 12 to 16 two-year community colleges, 2) establish at least three new four-year colleges in major population centers, and 3) appoint a chancellor to help guide the three state universities in a long...
...steep tumble in coffee prices was balanced by an air of inflation in other commodity markets. Tension in the Far East touched off a wave of buying in tin, lead, zinc, rubber. Malayan tin rose 2¼? to 92? a lb., rubber to a new 1954-55 high of 37¼ a lb. Copper supplies were tighter than at any time since the scare-buying at the start of the Korean war. Reasons: a month-old strike at the big Northern Rhodesia mines, and rising European demand. Although copper prices steadied at 33? a lb. in the New York market...
...last week, many Communist officials have reaffirmed "the unbreakable fraternal friendship" of the two countries. Yesterday, for instance, Mao Tes-tung, the ruler of Red China, in a wave public statement, expressed confidence that "the great cooperation between China and the Soviet Union will be strengthened still further...