Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is needed is a positive and immediate program to reduce American unemployment, but so far neither political party has given its official blessing to any practical suggestions. In this category one would place a Federal standard for relief benefits, which now vary from $5 a week in Iowa and Kansas to $45 a week in New York and Alaska and from five weeks duration in Florida to thirty weeks in Pennsylvania. So far, the states have shown no desire to agree on such a standardization among themselves, and a Federally-legislated minimum, such as that envisioned by bills before...
...threat to Franco than the mutterings and machinations of his political opponents are the consequences of his own economic mismanagement. The Spanish economy has indeed come a long way in the last 20 years. Its industry has grown; new buildings have sprouted in the major cities; and the living standard of its people has risen. But the figures Franco cites to demonstrate Spain's progress are comparisons with 1940 when the country still lay in the wreckage created by the Civil War. Fact is that Spain, which produced 1,000,000 tons of steel in 1929, produced only...
Reward for Struggles. The modern American, says Dr. Dubos, is kidding himself about how healthy he is: a man past 45 has little greater life expectancy than had his grandfathers; he has the world's highest living standard, but 10% of his income* goes for medical care. "One out of every four citizens will have to spend at least some months or years in a mental asylum. One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration...
...call the Rambler "the most reliable car since the model T." Others take their pleasure in less rhapsodic praise. Women like it because its compact size (15.9 ft. long, 6 ft. wide, 108-in. wheelbase v. 17.3 ft. long, 6.4 ft. wide, 118-in. wheelbase for the standard Ford) makes it easy to handie in traffic, easy to park. The Rambler's unitized frame construction, in which body and frame are welded into a single unit (Ford, G.M. and Chrysler will also use this construction in their compact cars), eliminates most of the rattles and squeaks that often occur...
...Lake), screen adapter (with Billy Wilder) of Double Indemnity, creator of glib, tough-talking Private Eye Philip Marlowe; in La Jolla, Calif. Chandler came late (44) to his fiction career, but his imagistic style put brassy, sassy dialogue in the corners of some sizable Hollywood mouths,* set a standard few could imitate: "She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket." The lady had a voice "that dragged itself out of her throat like a sick man getting out of bed." Dinner "tasted like a discarded mailbag." Since Detective Marlowe was acceptable to brows of every altitude...