Word: pre
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Majesty's Army had a volunteer: the Duke of Kent, 17-year-old first cousin of Queen Elizabeth and seventh in succession to the throne. In October he will become the first member of the royal family ever to enter the ranks as a private. After pre-cadet training, he will take the examinations for Sandhurst, Britain's West Point, hoping to make the army his career (preferably as a tank officer...
...Ideal Food." The new emphasis on the U.S. waistline has forced some food producers into hasty counteraction. Dieting has already helped cut per capita consumption of wheat flour from 157 Ibs. pre-war to 130 Ibs. a year, and the worried American Bakers Association is spending a good part of its $1,000,000 advertising budget to plug bread as a reducing food. Annual potato consumption dropped from 132 Ibs. per capita in 1939 to 104 Ibs. last year...
Early this year, when repossessions of used cars started to rise, credit men tightened up on auto purchase terms. Now, credit men often will not make loans on pre-1950 cars. As a result, repossessions have declined, but so have sales of used cars, to the dismay of the dealers (see Autos). The used-car market has shown how quickly any change in credit is reflected in sales of consumer goods...
During the 1940 presidential race, Republican Candidate Wendell Willkie was fiercely attacked by the pinko PM, now defunct, in a series of columns signed Paul Revere II. Last week, at the second session of the pre-trial testimony in a $1,500,000 libel suit brought against Walter Winchell by the New York Post and its editor, James A. Wechsler (TIME, July 13), Columnist Winchell was cornered into a confession. Paul Revere II was Walter Winchell. Since King Features, which syndicates his column, had cut out his diatribes at Willkie, Winchell had put his left hand to work...
...poor man of Novgorod whose heart aches for the sufferings of his people. One night he sings of their sorrows to the sea; and hearing him, the daughter of the Sea King rises through the waves, falls in love with him, and promises to help. In a bit of pre-Marxist fairy-tale socialism, she enables him to relieve a lot of capitalists of their money, which he promptly distributes to the poor. But, Sadko finds, while their bodies now have all they can desire, their souls still want. They are not happy. Whereupon Sadko and some brave friends...