Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe), opposed the bill as likely to make prostitution more covert, and thus more professionally organized. Labor's cherubic Anthony Greenwood objected to the phrase "common prostitute" in the bill as violating the traditional presumption of innocence. Not for long did the debate stay on this legalistic level...
...NASA scientists could calculate their effect on the shape of the earth. The excess of gravitation around the North Pole, for instance, indicates an extra 200-ft. bulge of rock over an area equivalent to the Atlantic Ocean. This extra mass would attract enough sea water to raise sea level about 50 ft. above the theoretical curve of an ideally plastic earth. None of the newfound bulges are large compared to the polar spin-flattening (about 13 miles), but they may cast new light on the earth's mysterious interior...
Poulsen and Cushing had differences almost from the start. Cushing allowed Poulsen to reserve 42 acres of land for homesites, found belatedly that Squaw Valley Development Corp. was left with only six acres of level ground. Cushing wanted to operate restaurant, bar and lodging facilities at Squaw. Poulsen wanted to lease them out. Cushing went ahead anyway, bought a set of old Air Force barracks, had them trucked into the valley, put the corporation in the hotel business...
...signal of the upturn came from the long-ailing machine-tool industry. It reported that new orders in December soared 62% over the year-ago level. One of the biggest manufacturers, Cleveland's Warner & Swasey Co., said its new orders are running 150% above the first-half 1958 clip. The construction contractors who build the industrial plants also noted a brisk rise in requests for cost estimates on new jobs...
There was many another sign of steady recovery. The number of workers drawing unemployment compensation dropped, as did new claims for jobless pay. Department store sales ran 5% above the year-ago level. January auto production, geared closely to sales, moved 11% higher than last year's rate (see chart). American Motors was selling three times as many Ramblers as it did in January 1958. Studebaker-Packard was also outselling last year 3 to 1, due almost entirely to its fast-moving little Lark. The company had already outproduced its 1958 total of 49,770 and made...