Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Natchez Trace, some of the editors were surprised to find no segregation in places of business. Editor J. Clark Samuel of Massachusetts' Foxboro Reporter was struck by "fine colored schools" and the sight of Negroes and whites "living in compatibility." Publisher John C. Bond of Massachusetts' Rockland Standard noted "a real effort to lift the level of the Negro educationally...
...selling mood. As a San Francisco dealer said last week: "The less I sell, the better. There's a shortage of proper technicians to repair them, and I don't think the buyer is always happy with what he gets." Dealers complain that prices, including the standard $100 one-year service policy (v. $40 for black-and-white), are still too high, and retail markups are too low to justify aggressive advertising...
...General Motors last week rolled out its 1957 Chevrolet, the big news was hidden under the hood. Chevy is the first U.S. automaker to bring out a fuel-injection engine for standard production-line cars. It is a 283-h.p: V-8 engine, turning up nearly 60 h.p. more than last year's most powerful Chevy engine. It will be standard equipment on Chevrolet's Corvette sports car and optional (estimated at $190 extra cost) on every other model. Instead of using a carburetor, the fuel-injection system shoots gasoline and air directly into each cylinder, thus gives...
...year. Like the Chevrolet, the new Rambler, completely redesigned in 1956, is getting only a face-lift this year. Main improvement: a more conservative rear-body treatment to de-emphasize the car's boxy appearance. The Rambler will give buyers a choice of three engines, ranging from a standard 125-h.p., six-cylinder model to its first V-8 engine, rated at 190 h.p. Introducing the new Rambler, American Motors President George Romney said that his company can break even with sales of only 25,000 more cars in 1957's model year than...
With his set of moral values destroyed, man then turned to an ad hoc moral standard which is in vogue today. Contemporary man must therefore regain the older type of comprehensive morals without the other aspects of traditional religion which are no longer workable in American society, concluded Handlin...