Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joint Enterprise. Linda Mar's is no ordinary public school. Five weeks ago, it was no more than another valley lot. Now the Oddstad School stood ready for its pupils: an odd combination of eleven standard one-story houses linked by a breezeway, with interiors converted into light, airy classrooms, the kitchen in one serving as a teachers' lunchroom. Last week there was work yet to be done; carpenters were still nailing on roof shingles; there was no electricity; the kindergarten's blocks had not arrived. But months ahead of schedule, Linda Mar's children...
...tall men (6 ft. 2 in. or more) and women (5 ft. 10 in. and up), donated two beds, 7 ft. 7 in. long, to Union Memorial Hospital. The club's organizer. Jerry Geller, had suffered from having his 7 ft. 2 in. frame folded into a standard...
...have moved to Los Angeles for jobs, the show is produced by writers Ray Singer and Dick Chevillat at the Hal Roach studio. Bishop plays the handsome leading man, and O'Shea is cast as the dumb, good-natured, wolf-calling sidekick that Hollywood has decreed as standard equipment for every U.S. soldier-hero...
...standard business barometer is the amount businessmen are willing to spend on expansion. Last week two Government agencies issued figures indicating that businessmen's spending-and confidence -remain high. For 1954. said the Commerce Department and the SEC. businessmen plan to spend $26.7 billion on their plants and new equipment. While the figure is 6% below the 1953 outlay, and slightly below what businessmen expected to spend six months ago, it will still be the second largest capital outlay in history...
PACKARD hopes to beat other automakers out with a new torsion-bar-ride-control mechanism, which it believes will give it the easiest riding car in the industry. The torsion-bar mechanism operates by electricity to cut down side-sway and absorb bumps, will be installed as standard equipment on 1955 high-priced Packard lines...