Word: offshoot
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...Matabele, a savage offshoot of the Zulu tribe, named their warrior king Lobengula ("He Who Drives Like the Wind"). But by 1880 the fat, short-winded monarch preferred to lie on his bed toying with the stolen diamonds he kept in a couple of kerosene cans, while his wives covered his naked body with gold sovereigns...
...days after the hardboiled, sardonically titled Farewell, My Lovely (TIME, Dec. 18) opened in Minneapolis, Audience Research Inc., a Gallup offshoot, persuaded its client RKO to change the title. Reasons: the old title was confusing, unattractive to murder mystery addicts. The new, informative, alluring title: Murder, My Sweet...
...fundamentalist offshoot of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Another offshoot: The Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Difference: Bible Presbyterians ban all liquor; Orthodox Presbyterians permit beer and wine...
...reaching cut in airline passenger fares was announced jointly this week by giant amphibious Pan American Airways and its scrappy, up-&-coming offshoot, Pan American-Grace Airways. The cuts average 10%, affect all flights between the U.S. and Latin America, will save 500,000-odd Pan Am-Panagra customers $1,250,000 yearly. Sample cuts: Miami to Buenos Aires $550 to $495; Miami-Lima $354 to $320; Miami-Bogota $213 to $183. The new rates will become effective whenever the airlines get CAB approval (probably two months...
...banking firm of J. Henry Schroder & Co.) was not hard to answer. For under terms of the plan American individuals (not Schroder Rockefeller) would boss TACA. Another objection had more substance: Yerex would still own all of British West Indian Airways and one-third of TACA's Brazilian offshoot...