Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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period of mass murder and torture and revolutionary methods becomes more and more remote, as the standard of the people rises, surely these very intelligent people will not be content forever with what is called the materialist doctrine. Sooner or later, however strong or coercive the central government, these men and women will begin to ask themselves the questions that man has always posed since first he came into the world. They will ask themselves the old questions and search for the answers: Who made us; why are we here; what is the purpose of life; is there right...
Married to a young economist named Reed R. Porter, Sylvia landed a job with a Wall Street broker who packed her off to Bermuda with ten suitcases containing $175,000 in gold coin just before the U.S. went off the gold standard in 1933. Sylvia sold the gold for pounds, purchased British bonds, brought them back to the U.S., turned them into dollars for a pretty profit. With this practical experience behind her, Sylvia in 1935 persuaded the Post to hire her as a financial reporter. Three years later the Post warily gave her a column under the byline...
...glance at Russian public opinion and attitudes was provided by Alex Inkeles, professor of Sociology, who told the audience that "many Soviet citizens have been profoundly alienated from the regime" by the Stalinist terror and the miserably depressed standard of living...
During the past 175 years the United States has taken the originality of Europe and, with its resources and practical ability, transformed it into the standard of living and the physical strength which make it the wealthiest nation in the world. But now, for the first time, America is confronted with a challenge to an intellectual battle which is perhaps a battle for survival...
...first flight. With an escort of two jet chase planes to observe and take pictures, a veteran Douglas test crew took the DC-8 to 31,000 ft., flew it over the Pacific at 360 m.p.h. (top speed: 600 m.p.h.). Said President Donald W. Douglas Jr.: "It looked standard. Like it's going to look in every airport in the world every day." Douglas spent $250 million to design and tool up for its jet, has orders from 17 airlines for 138 planes. It expects to deliver the first in mid-1959. But even with $700 million in orders...