Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue was the loss by Chicago's ancient Parmelee Transportation Co. of its 102-year-old franchise to haul passengers and baggage between the city's eight painfully scattered railroad stations. Last spring the railroads, considering Parmelee inefficient and overpriced, threw open bidding on a new five-year contract. Successful low bidder was Railroad Transfer Service, Inc., headed by tempestuous John Keeshin, trucking magnate and longtime, if unlikely, friend of quiet Hugh Cross...
...sent out to ginger up timorous local committees; schools for two million bookkeepers were started. Evidently there were sweeping changes in the top command: Teng Tsu-hui, China's farm boss, has not been seen or heard from since. By last month the Central Committee was ready to spring the new line. Mao's speech (made public for the first time) provided the new battle cries. Red China's ubiquitous loudspeakers dinned his down-on-the-farm phrases about bound-foot hobblers into a billion ears. Because Mao had said that the great mass of poor farmers...
Fanfaron IV was snatched from the butcher, carefully trained as a steeplechaser. He got his first big chance in the Prix des Landes at Enghien, Belgium last spring. He won. All season long, Fanfaron IV ran scared. In eight races he finished first four times, second twice. He earned 4,000,000 francs. Last week in the Prix Georges Brinquant at Auteuil, Fanfaron won once more and put another 2,000-000 francs in his owner's pocket...
When a friend warned Paul Kayser, president of El Paso Natural Gas Co., that his blistering pace would one day make him "fly apart like a watch spring," the 68-year-old Kayser coolly replied: "Hell, when I die I'll run 15 years on momentum...
...Rare Metals Corp. of America, 55% owned by El Paso, 18% by Western Natural Gas Co. (an I affiliate) and 27% by officers and employees of the companies. Rare Metals opened a mercury plant in Idaho this fall and will have a reduction mill finished in Arizona late next spring...