Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veterans quickly overtook nonvets their own age in earning power (from 15% behind in 1946 to 19.5% ahead in 1956). G.I. education boosted incomes enough, reckons the VA, to pay back its $14.5 billion cost in extra income taxes by 1970. Vets not only caught up on the old standard of U.S. living but became a mighty force in kicking off the postwar boom in consumer durables by founding the new suburbs, filling them with TV sets, home dryers, cars. Cartoonist Bill (Up Front) Mauldin, like many of his lesser-paid buddies, now treats himself to an air-conditioned...
...standard, the 19-day walkout of the tightly knit, semiskilled Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union was a bitter blow. Most New Yorkers had to make do with radio and TV reports (TIME, Dec. 22, 29), which were often skimpy digests of wire-service stories. The nine papers (daily circ. 5,700,000; 8,100,000 on Sunday) laid off some 15,000 workers, who lost an estimated $4,000,000 in wages. Struck during the Christmas rush, the papers missed some $30 million in advertising. Wrote Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the Times in a whimsical office memo: "Last...
...attract eminent men capable of distinguished scholarship . . . and will be commensurate with or superior to the best salaries paid in like fields in any other American university [best guess: $20,000 or more]. It is hoped that this nucleus of distinguished scholars and students may set a standard and a goal...
Actually, the show's special appeal is neither sex nor standard whodunit suspense. The audience is rarely kept guessing about who scragged the rich widow or shot the human fly. All Peter Gunn's have to do is wince while their man absorbs his beatings. Usually they know did what to whom, and they can be that Pete will survive with his features unscrambled. While the mayhem builds up though, the show offers a fine sound track. Jazzman Henry Mancini, who boasts some 50 movie credits, composes scores for each show, leads leman band through a whining, insinuating...
Luxury & Convenience. No one learned the lessons of innovation better than the nation's butchers, bakers and grocerymen. People tend to think of food as a standard, largely static item. But in 1958's new economy, nearly 50% of the products sold were not available in their present form at the end of World War II. By offering the consumer a constant parade of new ways