Word: prop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While it bears many of the earmarks of an extended prop school, this college of just under 1,000 students can boast of several departments that match or extend beyond the best of the big universities...
...Constellations from Australia's Quantas Empire Airways, was reportedly talking about buying new piston-powered Constellations direct from Lockheed. In Australia, Quantas and British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines, which have three Comets on order, were rumored to be thinking of canceling the order, replacing the jets with slower U.S. prop transports. Japan has already asked De Havilland to postpone delivery of two Comet II's ordered by Japan Airlines...
...calmly went on advising kiddies to brush their tusks every day while a pair of A.F.L. unions battled over his insides. One union claims that the undercover man manipulating Elmer's trunk with his arm is an artist; the other insists he is merely a stagehand handling a prop. The National Labor Relations Board is now trying to decide whether NBC has violated a labor practice law by giving the job to a performer instead of a stagehand...
...strongest union argument in favor of a guaranteed wage in the big industries is that it would keep up buying power, and thus counteract swings in the business cycle. Few union men argue that G.A.W. would guarantee against a depression. But they do argue that guaranteed wage plans would prop buying power enough to check minor recessions...
...about the U.S., some Europeans insist that Americans have no sense of history. To Historian C. Vann Woodward of Johns Hopkins University, that notion is pure bunk. Says he, in the Johns Hopkins Magazine: Americans have such an exaggerated sense of history that they use it as a prop to explain or excuse every conceivable type of policy or position. The result: Americans can no longer "believe our own history...