Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...management promise to make no economy staff cuts for a year. Said Thomas Murphy, executive vice president of the New York Guild: "Even if the Telly loses 50% of its advertising, no one can be laid off for a year." Salaries were also to be boosted. The pre-strike minimum salaries had run from $36 to $110 a week. It was reported that under the proposed agreement they would range from $39 to $120-just about what the strikers had demanded. But the 10% general wage increase which the Guild had demanded had been chopped to an average increase...
...estimated that the Post had jumped about 110,000 and the Journal-American about 70,000. The early evening edition of the morning Herald Tribune was believed to have sold about 40,000 extra papers daily. How many of the World-Telegram and Sun's 600,000 pre-strike readers had been lured away for good was anybody's guess...
Bates for Dates. Author Musselman lavishes all his affection, and most of his space, on pre-World War I cars, including the Stanley Steamer ("a dilly of a car"). The modern chromium-plated "monster" -"overly long, overly wide, overly powerful"-leaves him cold. Around 1900, manufacturers were afraid to make automobiles look unlike buggies; in 1950, says Musselman, "most salesmen are afraid they'll have a car that won't look like an automobile." The result: radiator cap ornaments, "despite the fact that there hasn't been an exposed radiator cap in at least 15 years," engines...
...President asked Congress for still another $1.1 billion for the armed services (in addition to the post-Korean $10.5 billion, and the pre-Korean $13 billion), 82% of it to be spent for Navy planes...
...Socalled 'premedical' education should be abolished in the colleges . . . There is no such thing as 'premedical' education, nor should students in colleges who plan to enter professional schools be regarded as premedical or predental students. [College] education is not 'pre' anything, but should be devoted to the objective of providing as broad a cultural education as the institution can provide. It should be a preparation not for medicine or dentistry or public health, but for life...