Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would like to wish success to the young man who is organizing the other nine political club presidents into a college Forum. It is especially pleasing to see this organization after all the time we spent last spring outlining the system for him. We would also like to wish success to the Yale-Princeton type parliamentary group proposed by another of the club presidents, who gave credit where credit was due. Ida F. Schaap For the Executive Board of the Wellesley College Forum
...long-ailing New York Herald Tribune, which has been busily expanding since brisk, 30-year-old Ogden ("Brownie") Reid stepped in as publisher last spring, had to pull in its belt this week. Five years after launching an 8 p.m. "Early Bird" edition in hopes of snaring readers from the Times (whose first edition does not hit the street until 10 p.m.), the Trib decided to drop it to save money. By pushing the first edition deadline back an hour, Brownie Reid also figures that staffers will have more time to fill out their stories, thus cut down makeover costs...
...medical team from the Naval Medical Research Institute and the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory reported on the radioactive fallout that occurred over the Marshall Islands area in the spring of 1954 following a thermonuclear-bomb test explosion. Findings: 1) the blast apparently did no permanent damage to Marshallese; 2) skin lesions and loss of hair developed in 90% of the group two weeks after exposure, but both conditions disappeared quickly...
Only a year ago, International Harvester's President John L. McCaffrey, told shareholders: "We have established a solid footing in the highly competitive refrigeration industry in the short time we have been a part of it." Last spring Harvester seemed on even solider footing, as it overhauled its refrigeration department, doubled the number of its regional sales offices and trumpeted that it was launching a multimillion-dollar sales program. Last week Harvester revealed that it had been treading on thin ice all along: it quit the freezer business. The company sold its 962,000-sq. ft. Evansville, Ind. refrigerator...
...Young Republican Club announced yesterday it would not change its plans to hold a mock session of Congress instead of a GOP Convention next spring until Eisenhower officially states he will not be a candidate for office again...