Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propulsion-engineering laboratory was assigned to test the raindrop effect. On a U.S. Navy firing range outside San Diego, Convair's engineers developed a simple but effective experiment. To approximate supersonic flight, test pellets of aircraft materials (e.g., light metals, plastics, fabrics) were fired from a standard 20-mm. cannon through a "rainstorm" produced by a 500-ft. series of sprinklers. The pellets' speed was kept constant-1,520 m.p.h.-and a parachute, timed to open after 1,500 ft., brought the projectile to earth...
SALESMEN who do their selling outside the employer's place of business may deduct from taxable income the expenses they incur in making or seeking sales-and they can do so even if they take the standard deduction on their tax returns...
...This explains a great deal the fear of the bourgeoisie, the social pressures, the lack of armament production, the low living standard. And our needs now are far greater than in 1929. We have 2,000,000 more to be fed. Our export needs have increased . . . Our equipment is oldfashioned. We need new homes. It is now 40 years since any housing of consequence was built in France...
...fact, Britain will get a lavish return for its lost oil investment. The real compensation to Anglo-Iranian will be borne by the other seven oil firms joining the consortium. For the privilege of a share in exploitation of Iranian oil, the seven (including America's Jersey Standard, Gulf, Texas, Socony Vacuum and Standard of California) will pay Anglo-Iranian about $600 million. In addition to this compensation, Anglo-Iranian, with a 40% interest in the new consortium, will still be the dominant oil operator in Iran. So Anglo-Iranian has cause to be reasonably content...
...past few years, suggestion programs have proved so valuable that some 300 companies, Government departments and agencies have banded together in their own National Association of Suggestion Systems to promote the idea. Such blue-ribbon firms as Standard Oil (N.J.), National Biscuit. Sears, Roebuck, Internation al Business Machines, John Hancock Life. American Airlines and Westinghouse have elaborate programs. In 1953 General Motors alone paid out $2,419,709 (an average $52 a suggestion); Ford paid $542,918, Du Pont $295,382. General Electric $685,842. Government agencies gave $1,362,000 for new ideas-including a $275 award...