Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power total, enough to light 1,570,000 homes. Furthermore, the estimated costs of nuclear power are dropping rapidly. New York's Con Edison said that the electricity would cost only about 9 mills per kw-h v. 7.5 mills per kw-h for a standard, nonatomic power plant...
What is bankrupting transit is, to a great extent, U.S. prosperity. The rising standard of living means less need for the cheapest form of transportation. The five-day work week has cut Saturday transit traffic by 40% in most cities, and television keeps many riders home at night. But the biggest competition comes from the private automobile. While gasoline and tires were rationed during World War II, the transit companies prospered. But since 1945 millions of U.S. workers have turned their backs on the bus lines-including even bus drivers themselves. In San Francisco recently, a delegation of motormen...
...work or not. If the employee works but one day of the week, says the union, he should be paid a full week's wages; if he is laid off in advance, his state unemployment compensation should be supplemented by G.M. so that he can maintain his normal standard of living. In addition, U.A.W. is asking for a 5.3?-an-hour wage increase, a boost in the 2½% annual wage credit for increased productivity, better pensions, a better health plan and other fringe benefits. Estimated total cost to G.M. : as much as $1 billion yearly...
...belief, yet under the sway of particular interests, the United States has failed to lower its tariffs on many products manufactured by her allies. Consequently, despite forty billion dollars spent in aid, these countries can neither develop industrially nor purchase needed American products. The result is often a lower standard of living and resentment of "Yankee imperialism." Besides weakening Western defense in general, high tariffs have hurt American exporters in particular, since some foreign markets have closed, either in retaliation or of necessity. Paul Hoffman has estimated that this amounts to a five billion dollar cut-back in American exports...
...suits ask "standard damages" of one million dollars for the libel suits, and demands that the News refund one-sixth the subscription price to all subscribers and cease calling itself the "Oldest College Daily...