Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Price officials glibly estimated that their day's work would roll beef prices back to pre-Korea levels, save housewives an estimated $700 million a year. Lower prices should be seen in butcher shops by Aug. 1, they said, and by Oct. 1 beef should be down about 10? a Ib. In New York and other cities, beef prices are the highest they have ever been, and there is also a shortage of beef, although the U.S. cattle population is 2% to 3% higher than last year. Di Salle's men said that even after they had rolled...
...life." The council's Chairman Frank Wells used the writings of rabble-rousing Allen Zoll, onetime advocate of Father Coughlin, to back up his charge that progressive education fosters juvenile delinquency. Wells's successor, Osteopath Ernest Brower, was convinced that sex education (a pre-Goslin innovation) would lead straight to free love, which would lead straight to Communism...
...ambassador also discussed the problems his country has faced since August 17, 1945 when it declared its independence. He outlined the conflict between those "who favor a return to the pre-colonial Indonesian culture" and those "who wish to adopt completely Western ideas and methods...
...sales brought only a small rise in net profits. In the booming chemical industry, for example, Union Carbide & Carbon boosted sales 40% but profits rose only 6%, to $29,178,685. Many another company increased its gross but profits dropped. General Electric, with a new high in sales and pre-tax profits, wound up with a 5% drop in its net (to $34,996,395). International Business Machines did the same: its net slid from $7,669,736 to $7,218,635. And industries such as television, which were hit by a sales slump, were also down. Admiral...
...basic principle of Di Salle's new system is to set prices according to a manufacturer's pre-Korean level, add to them only the actual increases in material costs up to December 31, the labor costs up to March 15. But Di Salle is determined to make businessmen take thinner profit margins and share part of the increase in costs. He will not allow them to toss in increases in the costs of sales, advertising, research, overtime...