Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...errors, run entire plants without human help. Beyond the computers, the age of electronics has produced hundreds of knowing gadgets for every use under the sun. There are electronic elevator systems with miniature electronic brains that automatically keep track of passenger demand, electronic "Ph meters" that can test with equal ease the acidity of California's lemon juice or the radioactivity of the AEC's plutonium, electronic "stopwatches" for industrial and nuclear use that can time movement down to one-billionth of a second v. one-hundredth of a second for mechanical watches...
FIRST G.M. STOCK OPTION plan will set aside 4,000,000 shares for about 250 top General Motors executives over next five years. If stockholders approve, G.M. will allow an executive to take 75% of his present bonus in cash or stock immediately, and company will put aside equal amount in common stock. Executive then could buy optioned stock, for market price at time of option, from 18 months to ten years hence...
WEST GERMAN BOOM is still on rise, with exports up 28.5% over same period last year. Trade surplus in March alone soared by record $127 million, equal to one-third of entire 1956 gain...
...overly strong, is generally clear and understandable. Sara-Jane Smith, as Eurydice, proves herself the best singer in the show with a soprano that has both power and range. Though she seems less sure of herself during the spoken passages, her acting is, on the whole, quite equal to the demands which opera imposes. Malcolm Ticknor makes a properly suave Pluto, and is by far the most capable male singer in the production. His voice is pure and his delivery carries authority...
...gyrations in Lukens stock began when President Charles Lukens Huston Jr., 50, was quoted by the Wall Street Journal as saying that the company's first-quarter earnings would be "equal to, if not better than" 1956 average quarterly earnings of $1.97. Since word had been making the rounds in Wall Street that Lukens' per-share earnings might be as high as $5, this was interpreted as pessimistic news. A deluge of sell orders forced suspension of trading, later sent Lukens stock spinning down by 7⅞ points...