Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clubs, farm and teen-age groups, Parent-Teacher Associations and firms that employ many women. It will also train salespeople-many of whom do not have the best taste in furniture-to help the housewife find out what she really wants, show her what new pieces will fit in best with her old furniture...
...father of mass production, U.S. business pioneered in standardizing thousands of parts and products to spur sales and cut costs. It set up specifications, for example, so that a light bulb would fit the socket no matter who made it. But while showing the world the benefits of standardization, U.S. firms have done a poor job in helping set up worldwide standards. They have left the field largely to other nations, simply because many U.S. businessmen are unaware of the importance such standards play in world trade. This importance was emphasized last week as 1,000 delegates from 40 countries...
...need for international standards was recognized 50 years ago but did not attract worldwide attention until World War II. In 1947, shortly after the International Organization of Standardization was formed, doctors discovered that an order of Swedish hypodermic needles rushed to epidemic-stricken Egypt did not fit U.S. syringes in use there. Needles to fit eventually arrived-but not until hundreds of victims had died of cholera. Since then, the organization, working through scores of national standards groups, has approved 58 worldwide standards for everything from musical pitch to the abrasion resistance of rubber...
...nowadays is an exciting, sunny, scrubbed and cultured place to be. In terrain, it is a blue central mountain range skirted with rustling fields of sugar cane, crisscrossed with winding blacktop roads; the land is dotted with clean villages that still have the Spanish colonial look. The island would fit tidily inside Connecticut. With a population of 2,300,000, Puerto Rico is as crowded as the U.S. would be if all the people in the world were packed into...
...attraction. But what is inside the lofty, translucent drum designed by Architect Edward D. Stone (TIME, Cover, March 31) has become the subject of a running controversy, at home and abroad. Main reason is that the U.S., setting out to give its interpretation of a new humanism tailored to fit the Atomic Age, decided it could win more friends by using the soft sell. The result has led many a critic to charge that the sell is so soft that it has given a fuzzy picture...