Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been describing a political law for the Middle East. Last week, only days after Gamal Abdel Nasser had announced the union of Egypt and Syria in a new United Arab Republic, the Kings of Jordan and Iraq reacted by proclaiming a union of their two nations in a rival Arab Federation...
...Squeeze. Few guns are likely to be fired in anger between the supporters of Indonesia's rival governments. The armies are small ones-measurable in battalions rather than divisions-and there is no easy way for them to get at each other, since neither side has enough warships or transports to mount an invasion. The rebels have no aircraft at all; the central government has only a few, with perhaps several hundred paratroopers. Java has more population (54 million, v. Sumatra's 12 million). But Java must import even its food, is already in serious economic difficulties. Sumatra...
...priceless-to-science" body of Laika, the Russian dog still orbiting in Sputnik II, rival spaceships battled grimly last week with every weapon still unknown to science. The futuristic dogfight took place in Buck Rogers, the comic pages' oldest and highest-flying extraterrestrial strip, which was launched into newspaper space 29 years ago by Chicago's National Newspaper Syndicate. A perennial hero to the space-gun set, Buck Rogers is flying higher than ever after falling from a prewar apogee of 136 client dailies in 1935 to a postwar perigee of 43 papers...
...least $1,000,000 and distribute the rest of the subsidiary to United stockholders; or 3) sell outright enough assets for a purchaser to import the required 9,000,000 stems a year. United may not hold an interest in the purchaser, nor may Standard Fruit & Steamship, its major rival, which now has 18% of the U.S. market...
...news was flashed shortly after 10:48 p.m., E.S.T., that the U.S. had launched its first earth satellite, CBS had Murrow himself on camera, chatting with Actor Cyril Ritchard on Person to Person about such weighty questions as "What is the most important thing in the world to you?" Rival NBC, which was luckily televising a discussion of "Missiles and Men" by its own correspondents, broke the big story immediately and ABC cut into a speech by Adlai Stevenson to give its viewers the news in a hurry. But the Murrow show has evidently become so sacrosanct a commercial entertainment...