Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ahead of the U.S., after Mikoyan's visit as before, stretched the familiar grim vista of struggle-not quite war, certainly not peace, but a course to which the U.S. had long since become accustomed. Against the standard prospect, President Eisenhower, in the budget and the Economic Report that he sent to Congress this week, stressed the nation's need to look to the health of its basic source of material strength: the U.S. economy under the free-enterprise system. For fiscal 1960 the President submitted a balanced $77 billion budget. In his Economic Report, he asked Congress...
...that the most urgent next step in the anti-polio war is to complete three-shot protection for 50 million Americans under 40 who still have had no vaccine or only an odd shot. This will mean wiping out pockets of epidemic potential, now found mainly in low-living-standard areas, such as the Detroit slums that bred 1958's deadliest outbreak. Simultaneously, Dr. Salk recommended a fourth or booster shot for those who have already had three. (Though some nervous-Nellie parents have had their children jabbed seven or eight times, this apparently does no good: the fourth...
...modern furniture by mixing with it oriental lacquered furniture-lighter woods plus new materials and vivid fabrics. The industry is also bringing out a whole new line of "wall-hung" units-bookcases, hi-fi cabinets, cupboards, etc. Even children's furniture is being upgraded after 30 years of standard pink and blue finishes. Big Manhattan, Chicago and Detroit stores are laying in heavy stocks of specially designed children's furniture, scaled down in size from adult pieces...
...Nova Scotia farmer from the herring-heavy shores of Pugwash (pop. 950), Eaton first thought of entering the ministry but soon changed his mind after a visit to his uncle, who was pastor of Cleveland's Euclid Avenue Baptist Church. One of the parishioners was Standard Oil Tycoon John D. Rockefeller, who gave the 17-year-old youth a job as a clerk on his estate outside Cleveland...
...comes to making or buying news, few newspapers can match London's Daily Mail (circ. 2,138,570) for flamboyance and vanity. Last week, in two swollen self-promotions, the Mail treated its readers to two old-fashioned personalized adventure serials that were even richer than the standard fare in the British press's war for circulation...