Word: tipoffs
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...from an East Boston, Mass. promoter and capitalist. Such things as this are done every day in the year by big business and small business without being publicized. Not until some enterprising newspaperman or researcher who is out to dig up the dirt on a political opponent gets a tipoff, is the unfortunate and embarrassed politician given the full treatment and held up to obloquy...
...first price rise for 1957 model cars was announced by Ford, the week before it was scheduled to show its new line to the public. Average increase: some $70 a car, or just about enough to cover costs of materials and labor. Ford's action was the tipoff to 1957 prices. While every auto make will probably hike prices slightly, no one can afford too high a boost, especially in the low-price field, where everyone expects a ruggedly competitive battle. Even with the increases, 1957's auto buyer will get more for his money. Cars will...
...Tipoff ingredient was the U-237. In the original atomic bomb of 1945 the active substance was U-235, the rare uranium isotope that fissions (splits) readily when struck by slow-speed neutrons. U-238, the abundant isotope of uranium, does not fission in this way, but when it is struck by high-speed neutrons from a sufficiently powerful detonator, it undergoes a variety of nuclear reactions. Some of its atoms split, splattering into middleweight atoms (fission products) and giving off enormous energy. Other U-238 atoms absorb a neutron, then eject two neutrons, turning into atoms of telltale...
...Tipoff. Perón received the resignations of his entire Cabinet. Was that the post-revolutionary gesture, customary in Latin America, to "free the President's hand," or had the army forced it? Buenos Aires believed that the key question would be answered this week when the new Cabinet was named. If it were packed with generals, the significance might be that the soldiers had to some degree boxed in the No. 1 general, that the revolt had cost Perón some of his power. But if the Cabinet included Perón's chosen cronies-Minister...
...have a Washington's Birthday party for the housewarming of his official mansion, a cavernous Regency Park residence given to the U.S. Government by Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Mutton in 1946. Although Aldrich wanted everything "informal," invitations to 330 guests called for "evening dress and decorations," a sure tipoff that royalty would be present. With some 50 Scotland Yardmen and bobbies barring gate-crashers (including all newsmen), the regal parade was led by Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and Queen Mother Elizabeth. After Aldrich whirled the Queen about the ballroom in a lively foxtrot, some of his countrymen started...