Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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INDIAN OIL REFINERY, the biggest single U.S. investment in India, was opened in Bombay last week by Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. Costing $32 million, the new refinery will produce some 25,000 bbls. a day, about one-third of India's petroleum needs...
...within a radius of 5 ft. from the phone, thus permitting several persons to take part in a telephone conference. The set, which includes a microphone and loudspeaker, looks like a conventional phone, can be used by switching on a volume control switch. Price: $6 a month more than standard phones...
...their funds in common or preferred stocks, for fear that capital losses might imperil benefit payments. Today, many firms have as much as 50% of their pension fund in the market, and most of it in common stocks. Dr. Robert E. Wilson, chairman of the $2 billion Standard Oil Co. (Indiana), calls the pension funds "the strongest source of new capital going into the market." Where Stanolind once had 60% of its funds in Government bonds, it now has only 20%. On the switch from bonds to stock. Stanolind has sharply increased its workers' return, much...
...future the trend of pension investment will be increasingly towards the newer growth industries. The current popularity of such blue chips as Standard Oil (N.J.), Detroit Edison, Du Pont, General Electric has already pushed prices to the point where the stocks in the Dow-Jones industrial average pay only 4.9% in dividends. As the blue chips grow too expensive, more and more pension money will go into new fields. Then businessmen will have to toe a fine line between their basic objective of protecting the workers' pensions and their responsibility to the U.S. economy as a whole...
...established to choose tutors of such calibre that this could not happen. Because the program must be worth the tutor's time, some sanctions should be employed to assure that every science student would prepare for the discussion, and complete the necessary reading and papers. Using the flexible standard of "satisfactory" or "unsatisfactory" the tutors could submit reports on the students; satisfactory reports would be required of all candidates for an honors degree...