Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Power-conscious Arthur Langlie is not against public power per se, is opposed to the Federal Government's pre-emption of power projects where local public and private power groups could accomplish the same...
...pre-dawn darkness one day last week, an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway mail train pulled off the main line and onto a siding about five miles south of the little cattle town of Springer, N. Mex., to let the Santa Fe's Los Angeles-bound streamliner, the Chief, roar past. As the mail train slid to a stop, Fireman Pete Camilo Caldarelli, 44, climbed down out of the locomotive and walked through the chill desert air to a switch up ahead. The job he had to do was one he had done many times in the past...
...vessel's own hull curvature. In addition, the Suez pilot must be familiar with the workings of virtually every type of vessel and must be able to issue orders in a babel ranging from Greek and Arabic to French and Norwegian. Under the canal's pre-Nasser bosses, a master's certificate backed by ten years' experience at sea were minimum requirements for a Suez pilot, and even then it took two years of apprenticeship on the canal to teach a new pilot the ropes and another ten to fit him for handling the biggest ships...
...Democrats will attempt a fairly sustained radio-TV pitch throughout this month and next. Republicans will start slowly, intensifying their campaign coverage in the three final pre-election weeks. This week the Democrats will experiment with saturation broadcasting: they will put Adlai Stevenson's Harrisburg, Pa. oration over all three networks and some 1,800 "blind" area stations. The G.O.P., understandably, is picking its stations, buying little time in the South (one exception: North Carolina, which has 175,000 Negro voters who might swing to Eisenhower...
...question of how the South will go found most observers in agreement. To hear such papers as the Atlanta Constitution and the Nashville Tennessean tell it, the region will again become the pre-1948 Democratic Solid South. As to the organized-labor vote, the Washington Evening Star, the Minneapolis Star and the Philadelphia Inquirer held that it could not be "delivered" by labor leaders. The Chicago Tribune asked skeptically: "Is there a labor vote...