Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reference to your article on Paratrooper Flugum's death during training at Fort Bragg, N.C.: this incident has been the topic of discussion by many paratroopers who have constantly wondered why in Heaven's name somebody did not cut Flugum loose from the plane and let him pull his reserve. Most of us carry a knife with us for such a specific purpose...
...been a long, hard pull. Since 1953, when a parliamentary committee showed that every M.P. spent an average of three-quarters of his meager $2,800 yearly salary on expenses (using whatever space was available in lounge or restaurant for an office), it had been obvious to all that Britain's legislators were grossly underpaid. The pay scale of M.P.s was determined originally on the theory that they were gentlemen of means-as they originally were, before laboring men (some of whom now get supplementary pay from unions) and poorer Tories came to dominate the House...
Cole, a stylist with a voice like a pull of taffy, is still TV's only regular Negro headlines* "I was talking to Lena Home the other night," he said last week, "and she said, 'You know, Nat, with your show going on like it is, maybe some day I'll get one.' I hear other Negro performers are pushing their agents to get them TV shows, but the agents say, 'We've got to wait and see what Nat's show does...
...sent prices soaring. Wages were slow in catching up. In fact, after General Motors set up the first automatic "annual improvement factor" increase in wage contracts in 1950, Charles E. Wilson, then G.M. president, said: "It is not primarily wages that push up prices. It is primarily prices that pull up wages." After 1952, wages began to catch up to prices, while the cost of living held steady. In the third round of inflation, which started in 1956 because of heavy business spending for expansion on top of heavy spending by Government and consumers, wages galloped up neck and neck...
...business and politics. Discussions often run over into the exercise room or into the sauna (Finnish bath), where Philosopher Adler last week led a lively argument on justice and charity in 175° heat. Only occasionally do discussions get hotter: one chairman of a large corporation threatened to pull his money out of a bank represented by a glib young vice president who differed with him in a discussion of the profit motive...