Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minor roles, Stephen Stearns, Lee Jeffries, Philip McCoy and others turn in performances easily up to the high standard of the whole...
...countries have made agreements with Syria to ship industrial goods in exchange for Syria's surplus cotton. The Czechs have offered to build two cement plants, the East Germans a textile factory. Last week Syria voted $23 million to build an oil refinery at Horns. Next day the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey offered to build the refinery at its own expense. So low, however, was Russia's bid (reportedly $10 million) that the Syrians are considering approving both projects...
Though U.S. businessmen were shaken by President Eisenhower's heart attack last September, it actually made little difference in their corporate planning. They had based plant expansions and product additions not on politics but on a growing population, an expanding economy, a rising standard of living. Republic Steel, for example, reviewed growth plans after the cardiac break, but changed nothing...
Auto radiomakers are turning to transistors because they eliminate the bulky tubes, perishable vibrators, rectifiers and tube sockets. Transistorized radios are now standard on Chevrolet's Corvette, optional on the Chrysler and Imperial, and are likely to be standard in most cars...
Transistors have opened up a whole new radio market. Nine years ago manufacturers sold nearly ten standard home radios for every portable; now the margin is closer to two to one, and is steadily narrowing. Radio's transistorized reawakening began when Regency brought out the first T-radio in late 1954. Raytheon and G.E. followed, and today the industry is in the middle of its most feverish sales battle since the early postwar years. The outcome, said one busy manufacturer, "boils down to who makes transistors faster and in bigger quantities than the others...