Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grayson Kirk, at long last received his scroll and the purple-trimmed hood of a doctor of laws...
...Steel, which has kept mum about whether it will raise prices to meet automatic July 1 wage hikes (estimated to cost steel firms 20? an hour), last week gave a hint of its intentions. Said Big Steel President Clifford F. Hood: "While costs are a major factor in any price determination, any adjustment of sales prices can only be made in the light of all known commercial and economic factors. The only point we have reached to date is not to attempt to change our prices until the situation clarifies itself...
Steel specialists, such as Editor Tom Campbell of Iron Age, took President Hood's statement to mean simply that Big Steel, traditionally the industry leader in raising prices, does not intend to hike its prices July 1 but will do so eventually. Steelmen are awaiting an announcement this week of the Consumer Price Index to tell them how great a cost-of-living increase they will have to add to their contract wage boosts...
...Hood College...
...Shuster's house lined with learned tomes, as befits two scholars holding bachelor's degrees in English literature. Says Shuster: "In a Julius Caesar scene, we try to do it so no classics professor would quarrel with it." They have also spoofed Mother Goose, Robin Hood, Les Miserables, and kidded the stirrups off "adult" westerns in a skit titled: "The Frontier Psychiatrist . . . dedicated to the brave men who brought mental health to the West...