Word: perk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Franciscophile Herb Caen (pronounced Cane), 43, the columnist who defected to Hearst's morning Examiner in 1950 for a doubled salary of $30,000. In 1957, Prodigal Son Caen decided to return (for $38,000 a year), leaving the Examiner (circ. 257,251) with little humor to perk up its somber pages. "The day I knew we had come around the corner," says Publisher Thieriot, "is the day Herb Caen decided to come back." Looking over his figures for 1958, Thieriot had good evidence that he, Newhall and Caen, and a fired-up city-room staff had done...
...Transac 52000, the first commercial all-transistor computer (rental fee: $28,000 to $40,000); Thomas Collators Inc.'s completely automatic rotary drum collating machine, which sorts and staples, detects misses or doubles, piles and packs up to 25,000 sheets of paper an hour (price: $9,000); Perk-ette's coffee machine, which spurts a fresh brew at pre-set intervals, thus always has coffee fresh at coffee-break time (installed free on $5-a-day guarantee); Coffee Vending Service's Oven-Hot Foods and Cold Buffet machines, which heat frozen dishes, provide either hot plates...
...again. In 1923 he "took silk," i.e., became a King's Counsel. The next 20 years brought him a succession of judgeships, a knighthood and a lifetime peerage. In 1946 he was appointed Lord Chief Justice, the senior criminal judge of the land (salary: ?10,000, and the "perk" of receiving 4½ yds. of cloth from the City of London Corporation each year...
...acted as if they were trying to grow, but needed something that they could not get from the agar or produce for themselves. So when a microscope showed such a spore, it was tenderly fed with vitamins, amino acids and other growth-fostering chemicals in hope of making it perk up and grow normally...
...even gaudier splash of red lies ahead for fiscal 1959 (TIME, March 24). Only three months ago, President Eisenhower, hopeful that the economy would soon perk up, predicted a skinny 1959 surplus of $500 million. But January's estimates are already obsolete. Anderson reported that the spending estimate has jumped $4 billion from programs already in the works, to a peacetime peak of $78 billion...