Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...severe burns, modern medicine has experimented with all kinds of remedies-tannic acid (now in some disrepute), bandaging, baths, skin grafting, diet, even hypnosis. But the victim of an extensive burn (more than 10% of the skin) is in most critical danger from loss of fluid and shock. The standard treatment for this has long been to administer either whole blood or blood plasma intravenously. Since plasma is often not available and since it often contains hepatitis virus, doctors have been looking for a simpler remedy. Last week a team of U.S. Public Health Service scientists announced that they...
...saline solution (two teaspoons of table salt to one of baking soda in two quarts of water) acts just as effectively as plasma in warding off shock. The victim may drink as many as seven quarts of the solution in the first twelve hours. Later, the patient gets standard hospital burn treatment...
...years later, by BLS "decree," automatic laundry service and biscuit mix also became necessities. It is easily conceivable that in time the same road will be taken by air conditioning, electric blankets, power steering, and a thousand other amenities. This is the familiar old American process of raising the standard of living...
...luxuries (or unheard of) by their fathers, and even by themselves a generation ago. Says Lever Bros. Chairman Jervis Babb: "The great mass of American families have graduated from a people who work for a living to a people who work for luxury. Price is no longer a basic standard. People buy for value. The store's problem is not to get rid of steaks, but to move the hamburger...
will put on sale a standard-size tubeless tire with two sets of treads, separated by a center groove. Each tread has separate contact with the road, thus providing better traction and reducing wear...