Word: automaticism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the same way, wages are growing more and more rigid. They are on a ratchet, clicking steadily higher, but locked against any slippage downward. Despite the recession, there are so many escalator clauses, unemployment benefits, and automatic increases that wages this year are still going up (see State of...
From the first backfire, modern drivers, cushioned by air suspension, automatic transmissions and power steering, will boggle at this venturesome cross-continental tour. Historian Nicholson's chronicle jounces over every rut in the obstacle course in recreating what, even for the primitive motorists of the Peking-to-Paris reliability...
Though he wore a handkerchief mask over the lower part of his face, the tall man in mirror-type sunglasses seemed to show a workmanly patience at his job. For more than an hour one dark morning last week, he painstakingly measured out puddles of gasoline in each of the...
Sputnik III, said Fedorov, is an automatic spaceborne laboratory capable of making observations of many kinds. Its instruments, which account for 2,129 Ibs. of its weight, are "considerably improved" over those of the earlier Sputniks. They are mainly in three groups. One group observes conditions in the earth'...
The most promising solution to the air traffic problem, however, probably lies in SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment), the air defense radar network being constructed by the Defense Department at a cost of $3 billion. When it is completed, this system reportedly will be able to detect, identify and track...