Word: splits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...internal split in the Advocate which led to the formation last Thursday of a new Harvard magazine by three ex-Advocate editors, is expected to be settled tomorrow night at a meeting of the older magazine's full board of editors...
...resignation of three of the chief objectors to the Advocate's policy has not completely healed the split...
Investors seemed to think that the upsurge would last. They brushed off the steel and coal strikes, quoting the old Wall Street saw: "Never sell on strike news." They pushed up U.S. Steel if to 1⅜ TO 24⅜, the high since the stock was split in May, and General Motors up 2¾ to 65⅜, new high for the year...
...parity program is to give farmers a stable purchasing power, based on some former period of prosperity. The House plan would determine such a period and then maintain it as the price base; the Senate, on the other hand, favors more flexibility in the computing of support prices. Badly split, the Democratic ranks are fighting to hold the states they won in 1948, while the G.O.P. is doing its best to win them back. The farmers can only sit back and wait for an adjournment-hungry Congress to battle...
...split between the Allies was caused by French and British fear of German competition in export markets if the mark were devalued. François-Poncet argued with a straight face that he did not want the German people to lose faith in their money. Robertson, perhaps even more afraid of Germany's competitive potential, sat snug as François-Poncet carried the ball...