Word: pre
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...early January, "I received a telephone call from Washington from a man who identified himself as the general counsel of the Air Force, Mr. John A. Johnson . . . He said that he had understood that R.C.A. was troubled about this proposed contract with Mulligan & Co. and that he was pre pared to write a letter opinion and give it to R.C.A. stating that he saw no legal reason why the contract could not be entered into...
...Pre-Advance. All the while, going through his acrobatic gyrations-lunging for bad pitches, darting like a great cat after well-dropped bunts, settling under pop fouls or wheeling and firing to pick a man off base-Campy keeps the good catcher's track of every aspect of the game. It takes a hog-wild pitcher to whip a ball out of Campanella's reach, or stick a pitch in the dirt that he cannot dig out. "I line up my body for the way it's coming in," he says, "and jump...
Size & Efficiency. There was once a doctrine, fostered by New Dealers and pre-New Dealers such as Justice Louis Dembitz (The Curse of Bigness) Brandeis, that bigness kills competition, results in high prices, low production and shady business practices. This notion is untrue today, argued Slichter: "As a matter of fact, the reverse is probably true." Because of their size, big companies are constantly in the public eye, watched over by competitors, suppliers, customers and Government officials. At times, big companies get advantages in the form of discounts and rebates because they have big orders to place, and occasionally they...
...traditional British diplomatic search for limited objectives. Eden submitted his own "more modest" proposal-a "simple" system for joint inspection of Communist and Western forces now confronting each other in Europe. Once more, while the news of the Eisenhower plan flashed around the world, the conference returned to its pre-ordained ways. Eden's modest proposal was for a "practical experiment" in "operative inspection of armaments." Thus a zone of security could be established in the center of Europe, and, once established, it could be extended "from the center to the periphery." Ultimately, Eden hopes that a demilitarized zone...
...clav Nosek, 59, bulb-nosed Himmler of the Czech Communist regime, believed to have been involved in the "defenestration" death of Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk in 1948; after long illness; in Prague. Nosek fled to England when the Nazis seized power, returned as Minister of the Interior in the pre-Communist coalition government, and systematically helped turn his country into a police state...