Word: tipping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...From tip to tip, Cuba was scorched by revolutionary violence last week. Saboteurs burned a hotel, tobacco-curing sheds, warehouses with $2,500,000 worth of sugar. A train was derailed. And, in one explosive day, President Fulgencio Batista's troops fought two separate battles against rebel forces in the eastern province of Oriente just as a bomb blast in a main electric cable conduit paralyzed downtown Havana...
...Defense Secretary Wilson, after putting up his sturdiest fight yet for his defense budget, pointedly advised $100-a-plate guests at a Republican fund-raising dinner in Milwaukee to look over their shoulders and see if the voters were still there with them. "As a tip in this regard," he said, "I would like to remind you of the great popular vote that President Eisenhower received...
...directly ahead of him-a huge mural for Paris' new headquarters for UNESCO. What its subject will be Picasso does not hint. But until the final revolver shot sounds, the old master can be depended on to keep the world's eyes focused on the tip of his brush...
...keep him in a reasonable sitting position. Ryan officials say that the X-13 has proved remarkably easy to fly. Pilot Girard, who has been working on vertical flight for nearly five years, agrees. Even the critical transition from vertical to horizontal is no problem, he says. "You just tip her forward. It's not much of a trick; any helicopter pilot could...