Word: standardize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...makes little sense for Pakistan to spend 70% of its budget on arms when industry so desperately needs capital. East Pakistan inclines more to a neutralist foreign policy, and can see little profit in joining anti-Communist alliances such as the Baghdad Pact (though, if profit is the standard, Pakistan has received on a per-capita basis three times the U.S. aid given neutralist India). Nor are East Pakistanis much agitated over Kashmir, because if Kashmir were absorbed by West Pakistan, it would reduce the population edge that is about the only political advantage East Pakistan...
...highest temperature recorded under standard conditions (i.e., in sheltered and ventilated locations): 136.4° F. at Azizia, Libya, on Sept...
...thousand M.D. conventioneers became subjects for their colleagues (total attendance: 13,218 physicians, plus twice that many family members, nurses, technicians). The M.D. guinea pigs submitted to being bled for a variety of tests, underwent blood pressure readings, electrocardiograms, stethoscoping and chest X rays. The object: to raise the standard of medical care for physicians themselves...
...launched Mad in 1952 as a sideline to the comic-book business he inherited from his father, M. (for Max) C. Gaines, who started the whole industry in the early 30s when he hit on the idea of selling reprinted newspaper comic sections for a dime. Using the standard comic formula-32 pages, newsprint, four colors, a 10? price tag-Mad was just holding its own when Gaines played a hunch in 1955, switched to semi-slick paper and higher quality black-and-white drawings, upped the price to 25? and promptly had a boffo success. The magazine now clears...
Wall Street glumly estimated a float of $100 million to $150 million worth of unsold high-grade bonds in dealers' hands, with another $500 million worth of new bonds scheduled for offering within the next three weeks. The market was so saturated that Standard Oil of California decided to withdraw a planned $150 million offering because the underwriters' suggested price was too high. A $20 million issue by Pacific Power & Light Co. was tough to sell even with a yield of 4.35%. Moreover, when two syndicates that had been supporting the AA-rated issues of Illinois Power...