Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week these names made this news: Miami Judge Vincent O. Giblin finally decided what to do about the separation suit slapped on Fur Trader (four generations removed) John Jacob Astor III, 42, by his baby-faced third wife, Dolores ("Dolly") Pullman Astor, 26. Dolly, holding out for the standard $500,000 plum (the same amount Astor gave his first wife, and for which he is now being sued by his second), had offered hours of testimony to prove that J. J. was worse than a beast when aroused. Having characterized the testimony as' "the most filthy [evidence...
Newark Star-Ledger (circ. 200,371) Long Island Press (217,040) Long Island Star-Journal (78,858) Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard (89,399) Syracuse Herald-Journal (133,704) Jersey City Jersey Journal...
...electronic screen intensifier" developed at Johns Hopkins by Dr. Russell H. Morgan and Ralph Sturm. Primarily intended for brightening the faint images on X-ray fluoroscope screens, it is based on the image-orthicon tube used in television cameras. The tube scans (in 1,029 "lines" instead of the standard 525) the image and turns it into fluctuations of an electric signal...
...Texas Railroad Commission (which enforces conservation of Texas' underground oil and gas). Rather than accept a money-losing, Government-fixed price, gasmen may refuse to export their gas out of the state, said Thompson. Already, federal control has brought on a sharp drop in prospecting for gas, said Standard Oil (Indiana) Economist John Boatwright...
...bureau has worked out a system under which employers would report quarterly on amounts withheld from each employee's pay, and the Government would bill the taxpayer for any balance due. Plan would apply to most taxpayers earning up to $10,000, who take the standard 10% deduction and have little outside income...