Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other unions had made similar wage gains which had to be allowed or disallowed, and still others needed them to catch up. The WSB had to set an overall limit-probably a rise of 10% above pre-Korean wage levels-and then persuade organized labor to accept it without strikes and stoppages. Another decision would affect "escalator clauses," under which wages in some industries rise & fall with the cost of living. A third would have to deal with annual productivity increases such as those written into the autoworkers' contracts...
...election, although the church press had backed the Brigadeiro during the campaign. The staid Jockey Club said it would revive its annual "Prix Getulio Vargas," which was dropped from the racing calendar in 1946. At week's end a new samba was sweeping to the top of the pre-Carnival popularity list...
Defense Secretary George Marshall last week ground out a policy order intended to stop college men from tossing away their books in mid-year and pounding down to the recruiting station. Gist of the new policy: while local draft boards can still summon college men for pre-induction physicals, that summons will no longer mean that a man has lost the right to pick his service. From now on (so long as the Air Force and Navy continue to have "openings"), any college man due to be drafted can pick his service right up to the last month...
Following the panel sessions the main business of the convention, the adoption of a 1951 State Program, will get under way. Among the chief issues to be considered are pre-primary Party Conventions and realistic taxation programs to meet increased State expenses. Senator Paul H. Douglas will address the delegates at the Roosevelt Day Dinner later in the evening...
...drama herebeyond the simple one of prisoner and policeis that between one political generation and another. On the one hand are the pre-Stalinist revolutionaries, Rubashov and his cynical inquisitor Ivanovmen who only closed their minds after philosophy had opened them; who abandoned all morality for what seemed to them moral reasons; who were Communists enough to denounce pity, but men enough to understand it. On the other hand, there is the young, completely Sovietized Gletkin whose fanaticism signifies not intensity of feeling but all inability to feel, who is more mechanism than organism...