Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most unions still believe that the time study is management's business, and they will take no part in it. Said one steelworkers' executive:"They can go ahead and make the study, but we don't have to accept the findings." The steelworkers prefer to let the company set job standards, then file grievances if they do not like them...
...still going steady with cotton, despite increasing competition from nylon, rayon and other man-made fibers. So the Department of Agriculture reported last week after a survey of 1,751 girls aged 14 to 17. Of all teen-agers in the survey owning bobby-sox (3% do not), 70% prefer cotton socks, v. only 10% for nylon and 5% for wool. In summer clothes cotton's lead is still bigger: 94% prefer cotton skirts, v. 2% for linen and i% or less for every other fabric covered. Wool leads in winter skirts (68% v. cotton...
Died. John Emerson, 8.1, oldtime stage actor (Tit for Tat in 1904), playwright and movie pioneer, husband of Anita (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Loos; after long illness; in Pasadena. Calif...
...President is well aware of the concentrated attack by which the Democrats have sought to tear down Nixon. He also knows that a strong Republican faction would prefer another candidate. To thrust the crown upon Nixon at this time, therefore, would simply be to increase the force of that assault. For the President to dump Nixon at San Francisco, however, would be to acknowledge that his high praise did not necessarily convey unswerving support; to confess, in effect, that he had made a serious mistake, or to imply that his desire for re-election might lead him to place expediency...
...East to West flow of novels has swollen from a trickle to a stream in the past 15 months. From Japan have come Some Prefer Nettles and Homecoming, together with a reissue of The Honorable Picnic. A Chinese woman living in Hong Kong drew a portrait of present-day China in the Rice-Sprout Song. India contributed Amrita and Nectar in a Sieve, the latter by the author of the latest Indian entry, Some Inner Fury. The bulk of these novels pursue one theme-the disruptive impact of Western manners, morals and ideas on the semifeudal, arch-familistic patterns...