Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbia's Dickinson W. Richards, 1956 prizewinner for his work in cardiology: "Every scientist suffers when there is any restriction, at any level, to the free exchange of knowledge. Except insofar as restrictions are required by the exigencies of national defense, we believe that there should be no restrictions." ¶The Rockefeller Institute's Fritz Lipmann (1953 prize-discoverer of coenzyme A) cited a research group whose classified work in a fast-moving field became obsolete before it was permitted to be published. "Such instances damage the morale of the scientific worker." ¶Harvard's Percy...
...autos, building materials, metals, clothing, textiles, chemicals and paper. Auto production in U.S. plants was up 3.6% over the week before to 131,584 cars, a pace that will send U.S. car output to its greatest June total in four years; truck volume rose to the best June level in eight years. Freight carloadings climbed 13.9% over the same week last year to reach the highest level in more than 19 months...
...more money for a newspaper without making the reader scream? Experience suggests otherwise. When New York's afternoon dailies went from a nickel to a dime in 1956, all three took circulation losses so severe that not one of them has climbed back to its old level. After a more timid price boost-from a nickel to 7?-in 1952, two of Detroit's three papers spent years recovering lost ground, and the third-ranking Times has still not recovered. Yet a fortnight ago, all three Detroit papers raised prices again, and not only got away with...
...individual company basis. But the industry's team, headed by U.S. Steel's Executive Vice President Conrad Cooper, said it will not meet separately with the union's twelve local bargaining groups because it feels the only way to a contract is through top-level negotiations between the union and management four-man committees. If one thing emerged clearly last week it was that union-and-management jockeying for public support through advertising and publicity had replaced hard bargaining. In Washington, Labor Secretary James Mitchell called for an end to the negotiators' recriminations, and asked...
...Spill Baby Spoon. A "spillproof" baby training spoon, with a swivel-action grip that keeps the spoon level no matter how the baby grips it, was put on the market by the Rhonda B. Corp. of Detroit. Price...