Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early as 7:30 p.m. (Eastern Standard Time) on Nov. 2, there will be signs, for those who know how to read them, pointing the way in which the election is going. At about that hour, returns recognized as indicators will cause professional politicians across the land to reach for their pencils and recheck their hunches...
...they move westward on their maps, the professional politicians will stop at Kentucky's Third District (Louisville), where the polls close at 5 p.m. (Central Standard Time). The Third is Republican: by 17,300 in 1946, 9,291 in 1948, 12,428 in 1950 and 14,694 in 1952. This year G.O.P. Representative John M. Robsion Jr. should be able to hold his lead over Democratic Candidate Harrison M. Robertson to at least the 1948 margin. If he slips below that level, the danger flag will be up for Republican U.S. Senator John Sherman Cooper in Kentucky...
...year, the new Chevvies are lower by 2.6 in. to 6.3 in. (for the station wagon), have two inches more hip and shoulder room inside. With wrap-around windshields, they have 18% more glass area and visibility; the station wagon even has wrap-around rear windows. Tubeless tires are standard equipment. Optional: power brakes that keep their power even when the engine is stalled, power steering, pushbutton windows, a two-way power seat, and an air-conditioning unit (about $150 extra) that fits under the hood, thus takes up no baggage space...
...compete with Lincoln and Cadillac in the top-priced field, Chrysler has added a brand-new luxury car. The new Imperial will be entirely different from standard Chryslers, look like the experimental Ghia sports car (TIME, Nov. 16, 1953) built in Italy with low continental lines, have a pair of striking tail lights perched atop the rear fenders...
...least once a month some investment expert asks plump, balding Robert E. Wilson, 61, chairman of Standard Oil of Indiana, the same irksome question: How will atomic power affect the oil industry? Last week Oilman Wilson* stood up before the third annual atomic energy convention of the National Industrial Conference Board to give the oil industry's answer. Said...