Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...failed. Interior Minister Mario Scelba himself rose to present the government's hearty endorsement of the Merlin bill. For the first time in anybody's memory the Communists joined in enthusiastic applause for a Scelba speech. The united front against vice would not be split. When the vote was taken, abolition of prostitution passed by a thumping 187 to 67. Passage by Italy's lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, is expected within a few months...
...Spanish custom brought up to date. For years, Venezuelan employers gave their workers a Christmas aguinaldo, an annual bonus, sometimes amounting to as much as two weeks' pay. In 1936, President Eleazar Lopez Contreras turned the aguinaldo principle into law. He decreed that employers must split 10% of their profits among their workers...
...mediocre collection of misfits and castoffs to the 1948 National League pennant. When his ballplayers wanted more money, they heard from the front office that "Southworth doesn't think you're worth any more than you're getting." As the 1949 season wore on, the Braves split into three or four camps-some for Southworth, some against him, and some just against each other...
...most active week since the big rise of May 1948. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 3.37 points to 198.05, the highest since August 1946. Most spectacular rise: Superior Oil Co. (California) which in three days jumped 69½ points to 227 on the news of a plan to split it into two gas & oil companies. Wall Streeters now expect the next test of the market at 200. If the bull gets over that hurdle, he might run pretty fast...
Many delegates to the General Assembly have expressed dissatisfaction with the "solution" of the Italian colonial problem. Britain wants a plebiscite in Libya to determine whether they want a unified or split nation. Moslems have demanded a voice in the running of Somaliland. The Italian Colonies are a typical trusteeship case: plenty of complications and vested interests...