Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pennsylvania had brought him a new tractor and deep tillage plow. It was a handsome pair. The 47-h.p. tractor, in fire-engine red and cream yellow, was the first 1956 model off the assembly line of the Cockshutt factory at Bellevue, Ohio. Equipped with a pushbutton radio for standard and short-wave broadcasts, a cigarette lighter on the dash, hydraulic controls, the tractor would retail for $4,000. Commenting that "two-thirds to three-quarters of my top soil now is in the Atlantic Ocean, or somewhere between here and there," Farmer Ike asked if the moldboard plow would...
...Eastern Languages. With Reischauer doing scholarly research this year, James R. Hightower, associate professor of Far Eastern Languages, has taken over temporarily. According to Hightower, the program still restricts its enrollment to about 12 students a year because it could not accept more and still keep up the high standard of work that has characterized the study group...
...Director Wayne Paton. Paton coordinated the signing and accompaniment, capably done by Richard Freidberg, and managed to keep even the most crowded scenes from losing their focus. William Cowperthwaite's arrangement of the overture for two piano's played by Friedberg and Larry Berman, deserves special notice for setting standard and a mood which were maintained throughout the evening...
...typist's speed by, 35%, will soon be tested by the U.S. Government. On the new keyboard, the most used keys are closest to the fingers' "home" position on the second row, and closest to the most agile fingers; vowels are on the second row. On a standard keyboard the left hand does 57% of the work; on the new keyboard, only 44%. Invented in 1934 by August Dvorak, now the University of Washington's research director, the new keyboard has drawn scattered cheers, but has never before come this close to actual adoption...
Economy-Size TV. In hopes of snagging the almost untouched market for television stations in small cities, Thompson Products' Dage Television Division has announced a complete low-power station costing only $50.000, v. $250,000 and up for standard installations. Dage's station was made possible by the Federal Communications Commission's lowering of power and antenna-height requirements in August. The market looks big: FCC has assigned TV channels to 900 communities of less than 50,000 population, but because of high costs, all are still without stations...