Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From a study of 42 major colleges and universities, Vance, Sanders & Co. of Boston described how the modern campus invests its money: 56% in common stocks, 29.1% in bonds, 5.8% in preferred stocks, 6.4% in mortgages, real estate and plant. Its favorite common stocks: Standard Oil (New Jersey), Christiana Securities, General Motors, General Electric, Du Pont, Standard Oil of California, Texas Co., International Paper, Union Carbide & Carbon, American Telephone & Telegraph...
...Killer." With free rein to use anything he had seen or heard, Donovan submitted about 20 or 30 pages of his manuscript for standard security clearance; otherwise he showed it to no Government official. In the home stretch of his 160,000-word writing job, he worked a 10 a.m.-to-3 a.m. schedule, left Harper no time to submit galley proofs on the last four chapters. Last week, as the results began simmering, Reporter Donovan relaxed with his wife Martha and his three children (Patricia, 13, Peter, 9, Amy, 8). "This was a killer," he said. "I wouldn...
...Homme Richard and eased gracefully onto the canted flight deck. The plane was Chance Vought's supersonic F8U Crusader. The new jet had already landed successfully on the supercarrier Forrestal's big 1,036-ft. deck; now it proved that it could also nest on the standard 876-ft. deck length of Essex-Oriskany-class carriers. Exulted one airman: "This baby takes us out of the third row and puts us right up front...
Mach 2. By any standard the Crusader is a hot plane. It packs missiles and fast-firing 20-mm. cannons, has a 1,000 mi. combat range, a service ceiling of 55,000 ft. Its top speed with a Pratt & Whitney J57 engine (more than 15,000 Ibs. of thrust with afterburner) is close to Mach 2 (1,320 m.p.h. at 30,000 ft.) in level flight. What helps make such speed possible for a carrier plane is the Crusader's stubby, sharply swept wings: they are ingeniously hinged, can be tilted upwards to act as enormous flaps...
...John Sayles Leach, chairman and chief executive officer, who reaches the mandatory retirement age of 65 in September. Long's successor in the presidency: James W. Foley, 44. Long and Foley, a young top-management team, will captain the third largest U.S. international oil company (behind Standard Oil of N.J. and Gulf in oil reserves and gross income). Chairman-elect Long graduated from Annapolis ('26), joined Texaco after a hitch with the Navy. In World War II he saw Navy duty in London, helped Allied petroleum experts direct the flow of Middle East oil to strategic areas...