Word: plum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the Havana mayoralty was the election's juiciest plum, and therefore a sharp setback for the Prío brothers' machine, their Auténtico party cleaned up in the provinces. They won a majority of 66 congressional seats, elected more than 100 of the island's 126 new mayors...
...until it came to the pesky issue of pensions did negotiations begin to hot up. But G.M.'s Wilson had shrewdly prepared for that moment. G.M.'s negotiators tossed in a sugar plum: the offer of an automatic increase of 4? an hour each year for the next five years. The cost-of-living clause (which now gives U.A.W. workers an extra 3? an hour) will be continued, but will not drop below the new basic wage...
Meanwhile, the A.M.A. Journal took a roundhouse swing at the huckster tactics ("Kills Colds in Hours!", "Safe Even for Children") now being used to peddle anti-histaminic "cold cures." Sales of the drugs in 1950 may reach $100 million, it is estimated-"a plum for those who want to pluck it... The possibilities for exploitation seem almost unlimited. Drivel such as some of the [advertising] pleas for over-the-counter anti-histaminics should not be thrust on the American public. There is a limit to what the public should be asked to swallow...
...major setback in Citation's comeback campaign. As every railbird knew, there was no percentage in punishing a good horse to win $2,900 (winner's share of La Sorpresa) when there was a $100,000 plum in the offing. If Citation's tune-up had been a shade off pitch, he nevertheless remained the heavy favorite to run off with the $100.000 Santa Anita Handicap later this month. What did furrow some trackwise foreheads was how Miche had managed the surprise-even granted that he was an established stakes-class horse and Glisson had given...
Fifteen hundred people, four horses and one pigeon turned out in the center of Havana, Ill. (pop. 5,000) one night last week for a torchlight parade. On North Plum Street the pigeon left the parade and soared in an easterly direction to carry the tidings to Harry Truman in Washington. The message, which the Pres ident had already gotten from sources faster than a carrier pigeon,* was that Scott Lucas, majority leader of the U.S. Senate, had officially decided to seek reelection...