Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...board has dynamited its own findings in two particulars. First, in saying that Dr. Oppenheimer's loyalty plus a high degree of discretion are not enough. National security must be absolute, says the board. But to call for absolute security in a relative world is to erect a standard that only dull, timid, mediocre men can satisfy by their absolute conformity...
Last week the Senate: ¶After long consideration, amended the 1928 Standard Container Act by legalizing a smaller, round stave, ⅜-bu. basket for fruits and vegetables. Already legal are ⅜-bu. baskets made of splints, but, explained Florida's Spessard Holland, these are less satisfactory for tree-ripened fruit. ¶ Passed a $29 billion defense appropriation after voting down, 38 to 50, Massachusetts' John Kennedy's attempt to add $350 million to keep the Army at its present 19-division strength. Michigan's Homer Ferguson argued that the cost of continuing the two divisions...
...Given a standard (25 micrograms) dose of LSD 25, the patient first shows the symptoms of an addict of hashi He starts giggling or crying, soon switches to silence punctuated by an occasional scream. He trembles, sweats, and shows every symptom of terrible anxiety. Then he goes into one of several "experiences": ¶ Patients can often recall and re-experience their childhood in clear detail. Wrote one woman: "I realized that I was reliving an incident that occurred when I was quite small, on holiday ... I was not in the least surprised to see my hand and arm [become] quite...
...newspaper companies that publicly report their profits, the Boston Herald-Traveler Corp. has seen its profits fall off from $1,270,813 in 1946 to $526,283 last year. In cities where there are monopolies, the papers are doing better. Greensboro, N.C.'s Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co., which helps finance 23 papers all over the U.S., reports that the profit margin of its papers in competitive cities has slipped to less than 5%, while in monopoly cities it is nearly...
...geographical area, or it may follow a precedent it set two months ago in fixing rates for pipeline companies that produce some of their own gas. At that time the FPC abandoned the investment formula for gas produced by pipeline companies and let the going market price be the standard (TIME, April 26). Under this system, the regulated price would be the same as the market price within a state...