Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proving that "order and democracy are perfectly reconcilable" is the prime aim of Venezuela's new government-no small feat with Venezuela's record for jackboot rule. But in Caracas, where Communist-led street mobs stoned Vice President Richard Nixon last spring and rumbled menacingly when their candidate lost a free election in December, the new notion is taking hold. In the squat white building that 16 months ago housed the dreaded cops of ousted Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez' Seguridad National, a branch of the Education Ministry was quietly at work last week...
...field recently waterlogged by spring rains, Britain's polo season got into full swing with Prince Philip leading the Windsor Park team to a 4-to-3½-goal victory over Ascot. Philip scored a goal, also took a tumble from his mount in the fray. Among the royal onlookers were Philip's mother, Princess Alice of Greece, and bonny Prince Charles, 10, a husky broth of a lad in zipper jacket and boots...
...Lest anyone think that ABC might lack talent after it gives Voice of Firestone the boot, the network wasted no time in demonstrating its taste, beat the competition in signing a prize performer who will not be available until the Army releases him in the spring of 1960. For an estimated $1,000,000, Pfc. Elvis Presley will gyrate and whine through at least one "special" a year for at least three years...
...Steelmakers poured at double last year's rate, were producing at 94% capacity. Oil production bubbled 14% above the spring 1958 level, and even Old King Coal staged a comeback. Soft coal output was up 29% at 8,300,000 tons for the week...
...popular price range. The stock of Upjohn Co., valued at $1,125 a share, was split 25 for i before public sale so that the price to the public was $45 a share. Similarly, when the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. wanted to sell a large block this spring, it first split the old shares, selling at around $500, so that the price to the public was $44.50 a share. Even conservative underwriters think there is a time for companies to split. Says Sumner Emerson, partner of Morgan Stanley & Co.: "A company that is going ahead fast and thinks...