Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vague. Rockefeller also recommended "a vigorous and effective export drive," including "proper credit insurance" to protect U.S. exporters against unusual risks; "a greater effort to arrange offsets in connection with military expenditures overseas"; and "a more realistic monetary policy to bring our interest-rate structure more in line with other industrial countries, while providing the increasing quantity of money and credit necessary for domestic growth...
...arrange for its proper preservation better now than after I'm gone." So saying, Philanthropist Edgar Kaufmann Jr., 53, deeded Frank Lloyd Wright's incomparable "Falling-water," the famous tiered and cantilevered "house over the waterfall" in Bear Run, Pa., to a Pennsylvania conservation agency, along with 500 surrounding acres and a $500,000 endowment fund...
...computer figures out the right mix of fruit that goes into the company's tutti-frutti ice cream, instructs the ice cream-making machinery just what grade and quantity of ice cream to make. In the kitchens of Sara Lee bakeries, another one stores recipes and orders the proper amount of butter and eggs; soon, it will also control the cake mixes, ensure that they are baked at the right temperature, then automatically test their quality, setting up electronic protests if it has been disobeyed. A General Electric computer is scheduling the timing of each stage in the construction...
...rapidly moving roll of recording paper. Each drop carries an electric charge that mirrors the changing electrical signal being detected by the scope. As each drop passes between the charged plates, the charge it is already carrying causes it to change course and hit the recording paper at the proper spot to leave a permanent record of the oscilloscope's otherwise ephemeral traces...
...profits to shareholders. To many businessmen, this seems too much; they contend that firms often give out money that really should be used to expand and improve operations."There are some companies paying out dividends that would actually be showing no profit at all if they were making the proper set-aside for depreciation of their facilities," says Charles B. ("Tex") Thornton, chairman of California's fast-rising Litton Industries. Litton has never in its ten-year history declared a cash dividend, preferring-as many other companies do-to hand out additional shares of stock to its shareholders...