Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italy, as elsewhere in Europe, two of the standard Communist-propaganda charges against the U.S. are that 1) Americans are materialistic and cultureless, 2) the Negroes are downtrodden. Last week the U.S. Information Agency fended off two stones with one appointment by naming Frank M. (for Martin) Snowden Jr., 43, professor of classics at Washington's Howard University, as cultural attache in the U.S. embassy in Rome. Snowden is a Negro, and he is far from cultureless. He holds A.B., A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in classics from Harvard. As an under graduate (class...
...Chicago, Kukla, Fran & Ollie found a new home on the ABC network. A standard NBC item since 1948, the gentle Burr Tillstrom show originally ran for half an hour, five times a week. Then it was cut to 15 minutes, and finally, limited to 30 minutes once a week. With a new sponsor (Gordon Baking Co.), the Kuklapolitan players will go back to their five-day-a-week format...
Officially dubbed the Army Package Power Reactor, the new device will generate enough power for a town (or military base) of 1,700. When fully assembled, it will fit into a building 42 ft. high but only 29 ft. wide by So ft. long (smaller than a standard Army barracks). To prove that an atomic power plant can be sufficiently tamed to live close to civilization, the Army will build the new model at the Army Engineer School at Fort Belvoir, Va., 18 miles down the Potomac from Washington. Estimated completion date...
...that, FTC blamed big speculators on the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange. Caught in the squeeze, five big U.S. roasters (General Foods, A. & P., Hills Brothers, Standard Brands, and J. A. Folger & Co.) started buying coffee to guard against future shortages and still higher prices. Result: prices soared again. The increases were rapidly passed on to U.S. housewives, and only when they rebelled did the spiral start downward...
...Syracuse, N.Y., the Post-Standard printed an angry editorial complaining that far more money is raised for polio than for cancer, heart disease or TB-which have far higher death rates. It quoted handy backyard statistics reporting fewer cases in upstate New York than in recent years, accused the foundation of being greedy and extravagant...