Word: tip-off
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...STOCK TIP-OFF is stirring more trouble in Washington, this time over Office of Defense Mobilization's decision to award Idaho Power Co. a fast tax write-off for Hells Canyon dams (TIME, April 15). Senator Estes Kefauver's antimonopoly subcommittee is investigating to find out why trading in Idaho Power jumped from 800 shares to 4,300 shares on April 17, the day ODM acted, though no public announcement was made until April 25. Maximum gain for those who bought early: about $3.50 per share...
...money market get tighter still? Last week, Wall Street apparently feared that it would, and that worry, plus year-end tax selling and the Suez crisis (see below), sent stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average edging down to 472.56, nearly 50 points off the peak last April. The tip-off to Wall Street was the U.S. Treasury's action: it had to offer an interest rate of 3.043% to sell $1.6 billion worth of 90-day bills, a rate slightly higher than the Federal Reserve's 3% rediscount rate. Traditionally, when the Treasury rate climbs above...
Sentiments & Sacrifice. Operation Lucky Alphonso was conceived as a means of strengthening the British hand in a resumption of negotiations with the Cypriot nationalists. The tip-off that the Cypriots were ready to talk had come in a letter from Archbishop Makarios to British Labor M.P. Francis Noel-Baker. Speaking of Cyprus Governor Sir John Harding's "pointless decision to exile me," Makarios wrote: "I shall bear no grudge on account of this action. It is possible that the talks will be resumed at the point where they were broken off. But in that case, why the sacrifice...
Seven Lines in Pravda. But the big tip-off that all was not well with Kruglov came recently with the report that six former NKVD interrogators had been tried and executed for the murder of Ordzhonikidze, who in 1937 was said to have died naturally. Last week a seven-line paragraph on the back page of Pravda announced that Kruglov had been "released"' and would be replaced by Nikolai P. Dudorov, a little-known bureaucrat with Khrushchev connections...
...agents also said that the tip-off on Petersen had come via the Baranes spy case (TIME, Oct. 11) in France. The French government, infiltrated by Communists, got some of Petersen's secrets from the Dutch...