Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quick to spot a moneymaking opportunity, Du Pont Treasurer John Jacob Raskob persuaded his firm, back in 1917-19, to sink about $50 million into a struggling automobile company named General Motors. That fabulously foresighted investment, now worth close to $2.7 billion, makes giant E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. the owner of the largest block of stock (23%) of the biggest industrial giant of them...
...frontiers, but only with reruns of last season's shows, and a "new drama series" disguised as Key Club Playhouse will run off old films from Ford Theater. Folksy Bandleader Lawrence Welk, whose climb to the No. 5 position in the ratings began with a summer replacement spot two years ago, will obligingly tootle all summer long. Grand Inquisitor Mike Wallace, the chain's "biggest" new talent, will be around on Sunday nights. Already filling in for vacationing Kukla, Fran & Ollie is Sports Focus, a new show featuring sports news and interviews with top athletes. There will also...
...study is based on a selective survey of programs of instruction in the social sciences. It includes on-the-spot observations at some thirty institutions, but is mainly an analysis of the data accumulated in important previous studies...
Last April, seeking a likely spot to resow the seeds of class warfare after their failures in industry, Italy's Communists turned their attention to the Po Valley farm workers. "Why should you leave the land where you were born?" they asked. "Stay and fight for your heritage...
...flipping, it gave Joe's place on the Government Operations Committee to Indiana's Homer Capehart, normally an Eisenhower backer, and Joe's place on the Rules Committee to an all-out Ikeman, New Jersey's Clifford Case (who also picked up the third-ranking spot on Banking and Currency which Ives vacated in exchange for the Appropriations post). That still left the Senate with a pair of vacancies to fill on committees from which Cliff Case had departed: 1) District of Columbia, and 2) Post Office and Civil Service. Each is so lowly that...