Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...product-internal disunity and, most of all, the constant threat of bankruptcy. Nehru has of late talked a great deal about retirement, and many of his countrymen, sensing a staleness of leadership, have begun to wonder whether he is the one to lead them through the difficulties that lie ahead. For a report on those difficulties and a thoroughgoing look at a likely successor to Nehru, see FOREIGN NEWS, Billion-Dollar Troubles...
There was also the threat of an auto strike. The labor leaders were glumly aware that the U.S. public, annoyed by rising prices, would take a dark view of a pacemaking U.A.W. strike for new wage boosts. The Executive Council went ahead anyhow, named a seven-man strike committee to "give practical support, organizationally and financially," if Walter Reuther's Auto Workers go on strike...
...business was moving gradually ahead, so were prices. The Consumer Price Index inched up again last month for the 21st time in 23 months, stood at 123.9% of the 1947-49 average. While rising costs of transportation, medical services and food brought the index to a record high, food prices are now declining, which will show up in the index next month. The drop in food prices is expected to offset any rises that may come from fall-clothing and postage increases, thus keep the cost of living relatively stable in the months to come. Said Ewan Clague, commissioner...
...that long-term contracts have many advantages. Management need not fear a production-crippling strike for three, four, even five years. Long-term contracts spare labor and management alike the heavy expense of time and treasure that yearly bargaining sessions require. With a fixed wage pattern, companies can plan ahead years in advance, knowing what their labor bill will be; they are able to guarantee delivery without interruptions. Were it not for long-term contracts in the auto industry, for example, countless auto suppliers would live from hand to mouth, not knowing from one day to the next if they...
...spite of being the world's most progressively educated orphan, Patrick is a little stuffy, and he watches his manic aunt's antics with considerable unease. Mame, rich, beautiful and pushing 40 (determinedly ahead of her, with a 10-ft. pole), gives him good reason for alarm. In Paris she flutteres her feathers across the stage of the Folies-Bergere. In the south of France she becomes romantically involved with a Mediterranean matron-menace named Amadeo Armadillo, and in the Tyrol with an obnoxiously handsome Nazi named Putzi. In London Lady Gravell-Pitt, a flatulent and fraudulent...