Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...administration, then Dulles came to the point, asked Prochnow to take over the economic-affairs job. Prochnow went back to Chicago to think it over, accepted. Says Prochnow: "To me, the greatest single economic force in the world today is the determination of the common man to raise his standard of living. In some cases, private industry is trying to do the job, in others the people are being shepherded by governments. I would like to see other countries developed under the free-enterprise system, but we cannot force or compel them. We can only try to persuade them...
...Standard Oil Co. (N. J.) announced the setting up of the Esso Education Foundation to help the nation's private colleges and universities with an annual bonanza of unrestricted gifts. Amount pledged for 1955 alone...
...standard cough suppressants-syrup, steam inhalations, potassium iodide, codeine and various barbiturates-had no effect. After eight days of steady coughing at 15-to-30-second intervals, the girl was close to death from exhaustion. As a last resort, Dr. Richard Gwartney, a specialist in psychosomatic medicine, attempted a much-debated remedy: medical hypnosis. With several attendant physicians, Gwartney sat by the girl's bed and explained what he intended to do, without mentioning the term hypnotism. Said he, in a report on the case last week: "It was all verbal suggestion. I told her she wanted...
Worker stock programs are not a new idea, and for some businessmen their past record is against them. In 1929 many of the biggest corporations -U.S. Steel, Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, A.T. & T., Procter & Gamble-some 200 in all, had stock programs. But when the Depression hit, all but a handful ran into trouble and were dropped. Not only did the workers, like almost everyone else, sell out at large losses, but the plans themselves were faulty. Most called for stock to be bought at a fixed price on a fixed day and paid off in rigidly fixed installments...
...from established poets like Richard Wilbur, John Heath-Stubbs, John Holmes, and David Ferry. The most notable of these poems, Wilbur's Looking Into History, displays the same grace and care that characterized his work at Harvard. Although most of the other poems do not meet Wilbut's high standard, there is much that will reward the careful reader. While Audience's assumption that controversy implies awareness is, perhaps, debatable, it is strengthened by both he poetry and the criticism that have appeared in the first two issues...