Word: spring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With a year's-end Treasury surplus, steadily rising exports and the first favorable balance of trade with the U.S. since 1865, the Tories were able last spring to free the pound, lower income and purchase taxes, even reduce by 2? the price of the Englishman's beloved pint. If Gallup is correct, the Tories might not only win a third consecutive term in office-something no party has yet accomplished in British history-but might even increase their House of Commons majority...
Reversing the Strategy. Bolling's plan was witlessly blown by a man who had been forewarned: ultra-liberal California Democrat James Roosevelt. While Bolling & Co. sat silent and shocked, Jimmy Roosevelt arose on the House floor and blurted the red word that Bolling had hoped to spring at the very last minute. Jimmy had found a "silver lining" in the Landrum-Griffin bill. And he told the Southerners just where to find the actual civil-rights sleeper, hidden in Section 609. The Southerners panicked just as Dick Bolling had predicted, but it was still 24 hours before the final...
...soon as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration revealed last spring the identities of the seven Project Mercury astronauts (TIME, April 20), newspaper chains, magazines and radio-TV networks bombarded NASA with bids for exclusive rights to the great adventure story. Firmly NASA turned down all comers: the U.S. taxpayer, who was financing the man-into-space project, was entitled to the full official story-free. But in disclaiming its own right to merchandise the personal accounts of the seven chosen astronauts, NASA passed that right to the spacemen themselves...
...Washington's bright young (23) bruiser Harmon Killebrew is a sensation of the season in his first full playing year in the majors. No mere flash in the spring, Killebrew is hitting with such power that he leads the league in both home runs and runs batted in, despite an anemic batting average of .249. With Rookie Bob Allison. 25. third in the league at week's end in home runs (27), Killebrew is the mainstay of Washington's new string of sluggers (TIME, July 20) that drew 12,198 to Griffith Stadium even as the team...
Though there was talk of a "peace scare," Wall Street agreed that the market was due for a technical correction after a headlong rise from last spring, saw the break as an opportunity for earnings and dividends to catch up with soaring prices. The drop was accelerated by news of the exotic fuel cutback (see Aviation) and poor earnings in aircraft companies...