Word: spins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowd and killed 83, they turned the drivers loose; a man could carry enough fuel to keep his throttle foot on the floorboard as long as he dared. And almost as if they had forgotten, too, some 250,000 spectators crowded close to the barriers to watch the cars spin past...
...TIME, June 10), a television news beat that won front-page headlines, editorial-page applause, and even that rare tribute among broadcasters, the repeated use of CBS's name on NBC broadcasts. There were a few complaints, too, over giving Communism's high priest an opportunity to spin his spiel at 7,000,000 to 10,000,000 Americans. But only one sour note fretted CBS. It came from the White House...
...separate golfers from speculators, the club finally spun off a subsidiary oil company called Westla, gave one share of stock each (estimated value: $2,000) to 802 regular members, thus detached the mineral rights from club membership. The Westla spin-off is expected to drop non-oil club memberships to $6,000. Westla will open drilling bids next month from oil companies, who will ask city permission for 30 wells on the 311-acre club. If the city approves, Westla will collect at least 32% royalties; the club will get $50,000 annually for ten years. For those golfers...
...mile auto race was behind him at 2:01 p.m., C.D.T. on Memorial Day, and handsome Sam Hanks was right where he wanted to be: in front of the pack. Now, for the first time, he began to worry. A veteran of eleven unsuccessful attempts at the "big spin in the brick-yard," Sam had planned to steal some time by making only two pit stops in his light, low-slung Belond Exhaust Special. He had already made them, and he could not be sure whether his latest set of tires would last till the finish. He was less than...
...broadcasts to denouncing the Fund for the Republic, and the national commander of the American Legion charged in 1955 that it was "threatening and may succeed in crippling the national security." Some citizens have boycotted Ford cars; others deluged Henry Ford II with outraged letters. "Your grandfather would spin in his grave," wrote an Albany physician, "if he could see the antics of the people who are spending good American dollars earned in the good American way by your once-fine company." Wrote someone from Los Angeles: "Dear Henry: Drop dead...