Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about to take off in her final flight in the U.S. Strategic Air Command's annual bombing and navigation competition, the supreme peacetime test of air-combat capability. From split-second improvisations during the hours of competition come bombing and navigating techniques that are later adopted as standard operating procedure...
American workers and farmers know the highest standard of living in the world and this, by itself, illustrates the worth of a system of free enterprise and an enlightened and dynamic capitalism. There is no doubt that if the move ments of men were free, in no time American consulates would be besieged by workers the world over. Supposing that the Soviet government would open its frontiers to immigrants, how many would be ready to take their passports to Moscow? There you have an irrefutable testimony to the success of American democracy...
...worst risks-those who are most exposed to floods-would buy it. Since the market would thus in all probability be limited to less than 10% of all property owners, the premiums would be prohibitively high. On the other hand, if floods were included like hailstorms as a standard risk in all extended-coverage policies, and the cost were spread among all property-owners, premiums would be many times the cost of present insurance. The man who lived on a hill would be subsidizing the riverbank dweller...
Even if flood insurance were feasible, argue insurance men, the company that offered it as a standard risk (necessarily at a higher premium) would lose business to competitors who preferred to keep their feet dry. Concluded a Manhattan insurance executive: "The Bible tells you to build your house on a rock. I guess you'd better be sure the rock is a high...
...most powerful ever put in a U.S. family car (285 h.p. v. 225 in the 1955 Lincoln, 270 in the Cadillac Eldorado. 275 in the Packard Caribbean, and 300 in Chrysler's limited production "300"). Both Premiere and Capri have automatic transmission and power steering as standard equipment; the Premiere adds power window controls and a device that moves the driver's seat in any of four directions. Optional: power brakes, an air-conditioning unit...