Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...connived with Western Electric, its $1.6 billion-a-year manufacturing subsidiary, to buy some competitors, freeze put others, and systematically "suppress improvements and developments," e.g. the hand phone was developed in 1907 but was not introduced as standard equipment until 1927. Furthermore, A.T.& T. bought equipment solely from Western at inflated prices (on which it pocketed the profits) then went before public utilities commissions to plead for higher rates on the ground that equipment costs had risen...
...declared that in America we are "inescapably committed to collectivism and governmental intervention." This same type of intervention is also necessary in backward countries, Thomas said, where state control must build up countries until they can handle the raised standard of living possible for them...
...doctors' orchestra was organized in 1938, now numbers some 50 medical men, their relatives and a handful of professional musicians, including Conductor Maxim Waldo. There are no standard medical-musical tie-ups. Dentists play violins, cello, horn, bass. General practitioners play flutes and timpani, a dermatologist plays viola. The doctors prefer to remain anonymous to avoid publicity that might be contrary to medical ethics...
...seconds the $369 mechanical sofa whirred out into a standard-size double bed. "It does everything for you," bragged the salesman, "except put you to sleep...
CinemaScope 55. A much improved CinemaScope was demonstrated by soth Century-Fox Film Corp. The film is first shot on a 55-mm. negative, then reduced to the standard 35-mm. size used by conventional projectors. The scale-down reduces the grainy effect of the pictures, puts the background almost as clearly in focus as the foreground. Fox's Production Chief Darryl F. Zanuck claims that "we have eliminated the bothersome fall-off in focus on the sides of the screen, and totally eliminated distortion...