Word: paced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was much more than an engravers' wage boost at stake. Both the publishers and the unions fully realized that any agreement with the Photo-Engravers' Union would set the pace for negotiations with all eight other newspaper unions. (The publishers estimated that an across-the-board increase would cost them $1,000,000 a year for every $1 in pay boosts.) "New York publishers have made their decision," commented the Louisville Courier-Journal. "They are refusing to tie themselves to blanket cost expansion...
...thanks to Lemuel Ayres's eye for color and sense of medieval Bagdad, a great deal of Kismet could not be more satisfactorily sumptuous. But Kismet is too weighted down with finery to be at all fast on its feet, and even with Alfred Drake to pace it, most of it is just resplendently tedious...
...still setting records. New construction outlays in November, for example, hit a peak for the month ($3 billion) ; and the SEC predicted this week that outlays for new plants and equipment in the next quarter will be at an annual rate of $28 billion, only 1% below the present pace. Christmas retail sales also seemed headed for a record, but probably not in Manhattan, hit by the newspaper strike (see PRESS...
...housing industry did get a new program that it hoped would keep building going close to its present pace of 1,000,000 housing units a year. At the same time, it appeared to satisfy all the other housing interests represented on the committee-unions, bankers, public-housing advocates, et al. Since it is virtually axiomatic that no two groups in the building industry agree on anything, the outcome of the committee's work was a tribute to its chairman, Federal Housing Chief Albert Cole...
...mile, and two-mile events were runaways for the Terriers' Bill "Wee Willie" Smith and John Kelly, who romped away in the final laps. Dave Alpers and Renny Little did manage to pace Smith stride for stride in the 1000 until Smith's stamina prevailed...