Word: split
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Place kicking came in for more than the usual amount of attention yesterday as Hank Vander Eb, Joe Koufman, George Heiden, and Bill Barnes split the uprights time after time...
Last week two advertising agencies lost (and others got) two of the biggest accounts in the U. S. From Philadelphia's N. W. Ayer & Son, Henry Ford took some $4,000,000 worth of business (all his Ayer advertising except radio), split it between two other agencies. Manhattan's McCann-Erickson, which already had the motor-maker's branch and dealer advertising, got the Ford car advertising. To Detroit's Maxon, Inc., which took over the Lincoln-Zephyr account from Ayer last summer went the Mercury account. For Maxon and McCann, this was good news...
...Five Split Other Guard...
Looking at the Western Hemisphere today, we find that between the United States and Canada on the one hand and Latin-America on the other there is an ideological and cultural split which could be narrowed but never bridged. Latin dispositions and ideas are as diametrically opposed as the conga and the square dance. There can be little in common between a democratic America and a totalitarian Brazil; Brazil, a country larger in area than the United States with an overwhelmingly illiterate population ruled by a complete dictator, can have little interest in preserving democracy. Economically Canada, the United States...
...required a two-thirds majority for the Gottlieb group, if they had stayed in the Union, to sever connections with the national organization and thus give foundation to their policy. This would never have been possible with an oposition of seven on the executive committee and an almost even split on the floor...