Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Take off ceilings on pre-1946 automobiles, on most department-store merchandise, meats, restaurant meals and drinks, and furniture (but to keep, for the moment, ceilings on major electrical and gas appliances, drugs and cosmetics, bakery products, milk and cereal...
...they said, was not price floors, but abolition of price ceilings and the compulsory grading of cattle required by OPS regulations. Before the week was out, the cattlemen got their wish: the Administration discarded meat-price ceilings (see above), and grading automatically became a voluntary matter again, as in pre-OPS days. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson advised cattlemen to rid their minds of "unwarranted pessimism" and to avoid "panic selling." By week's end the stampede to the stockpens had slowed down, and cattle prices had firmed. An Agriculture Department bulletin reported: "The sharp decline in meat-animal...
...through from an adjoining ballroom. Stokowski stabbed the air with his baton, stopped his orchestra and said: "New Orleans is the only city in the world where you can buy one ticket and get two concerts." Then he retired to the wings until the competing orchestra, playing for a pre-Mardi Gras carnival ball, had stopped. Said the jazz-band leader later: "I'm sorry if we inconvenienced Mr. Stokowski. He is probably very sensitive...
Flying Speed. All of T.W.A.'s pre-World War II equipment, including the five famed old Boeing Stratoliners. was sold off. The nucleus of World War II's Air Transport Command, they had flown for ten years and 25 million miles without a single accident.* With his 43 new Constellations (including ten Super Connies) and 52 short-haul Martins (including 40 pressurized 404s), Damon has greatly increased T.W.A.'s carrying capacity...
...University may take pride in its lack of titled pre-medical concentrators, or its habit of calling engineering students "applied science" concentrators. But this nebulous naming of fields of concentration, combined with a reluctance to give information about them, leaves Freshmen somewhat befuddled about their future courses of study...