Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...split second later, Humphrey witnessed a terrible spectacle. An Eastern Air Lines DC-3 on a flight from Boston to Memphis had seemingly materialized from nowhere, right out of the sun. The Navy fighter smashed squarely into it, knocked off its left wing and the tail assembly. As the pilot of the little Piper frantically dodged falling pieces of metal, the big plane began tumbling helplessly toward the earth...
...Communist drive against the Roman Catholic Church, which is essentially an effort to split it up into national segments, follows a plan conceived by Adolf Hitler. The diary of Nazi Racist Alfred Rosenberg, published last week by U.S. Military Government in Germany, tells how in 1940 Hitler planned to set up a German Catholic Church with its own pope. He also intended to have a pope for each German satellite country. Rosenberg quotes Hitler as saying: "The more popes, the better...
...past year, prodded by the Department of Justice, Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. and Paramount Pictures, Inc. have agreed to split their production-distribution operations and theater-owning functions into independent halves (TIME, May 17, 1948 et seq.). But the three other members of filmdom's "Big Five"-Loew's Inc., 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. and Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.-decided to continue fighting Justice's antimonopoly suit. Although they knew they would probably have to yield in the end, the longer they could stave off the splitup the more money they might make from continuing...
...people paid $108,000 to get into Los Angeles' Wrigley Field. The question was whether it would be a show or a contest. Champion Williams had beaten Bolanos twice before-but the second time Williams had absorbed a stomach pounding and had won on a split decision. Last week there seemed to be an outside chance that Bolanos, an earnest, resourceful fighter, might tag Williams with a damaging shot or shade him on points...
With that, San Francisco split wide open. An avalanche of letters rolled into the offices of the warring boards, almost all critical of the War Memorial board. For once, all four major San Francisco daily papers were editorially agreed. "When her own government has not seen fit to accuse her," cried Hearst's Examiner, "is it not presumptuous-and intolerant to the last degree-for persons in far-off San Francisco ... to keep pressing charges ... on nonlegalistic, hearsay evidence...