Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Germans are prosperous, happy and fat," Spiro said. "It is very easy for them not to worry overly about the East Germans, for they would have to make many sacrifices in bringing the East Germans up to their own living standard...
...every farmer like Melvin Anderson, however, there is another of a different shade of opinion, ranging all the way to those who speak of both Eisenhower and Benson in four-letter words. With farms 93% electrified, with capital costs high, with a standard of living that reaches as high as television, big cars, fur stoles, and college educations for the children, farmers do not find it easy to reduce their standards as Anderson has done. Said a farmer in Corning, in southwest Iowa: "I was just looking at the month's electric bill- $30. Why that's what...
...Other members: World War II OSS Director William J. Donovan, former Veterans Administration Medical Director Paul R. Hawley, Standard Oil Co. of California President Theodore S. Petersen, Clarence Adamy, assistant campaign director for the Republican National Committee, Morgan State College (Baltimore) President Martin D. Jenkins and John S. Thompson, vice chairman of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance...
...hydrogen clouds are moving, as they generally are, the radio waves that come from them are slightly longer or shorter than the standard 21 cm. This difference allows radio astronomers to measure the speed of the clouds. It also allows them to "see through" a cloud that is hiding more interesting clouds. All they have to do is to set their detecting apparatus to ignore the waves from the obscuring cloud and tune in the waves from the clouds behind it. Harvard's new telescope will be particularly adapted to this selecting process. It will also have sharper vision...
...passion: making bigger, better, more powerful airplane engines to help give the U.S. an Air Force and commercial fleet second to none. In the pursuit Fred Rentschler built United Aircraft Corp. into one of the world's biggest producers of engines (Pratt & Whitney) as well as propellers (Hamilton Standard) and helicopters (Sikorsky). Cool and shrewd, with a mind that ticked with the same precision as his beloved engines, he was never afraid to be called wrong if he thought he was right...