Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dealt around the world since World War II, the U.S. has seldom known quite how to play its trump economic cards against the Communists and Socialists. The trumps are those dynamic qualities of production and distribution which make U.S.-type capitalism demonstrably the best pathway to a higher standard of living. Last week TIME Correspondent Robert Christopher reported on an experiment in the province of Vicenza, Italy, where a group of imaginative U.S. foreign-aiders played the trumps with signal success, to the profit of Italian management, labor and the free world...
...four years), a Plymouth and a Chevrolet, clicked off the run at an average 29.58 miles per gallon. Studebaker's bigger V-8 Land Cruiser won the upper-medium-price ($2,401 to $3,000) field for automatic transmission cars with 24.57 m.p.g., and the same car with standard transmission and overdrive won the sweepstakes grand prize by lightfooting it over the course at 28.1 m.p.g. for the best ton-mile record...
Other winners: Hudson Jet (21.63 m.p.g.) in the low-priced field with automatic drive; Dodge Royal V-8 (25.39 m.p.g.) in the low-medium field with standard transmission; Oldsmobile 88 (19.75 m.p.g.) in the low-medium field with automatic drive; Lincoln Capri (19.75 m.p.g.) in the high-priced field...
Jitney Beginning. Orville Caesar, a mechanic turned executive, still likes to tinker with machinery in his home workshop in Harrington, Ill. He invented the Tropic-Aire hot-water heater to replace the dangerous and smelly exhaust-pipe system for heating buses, saw it become the standard for passenger cars. The son of a Swedish blacksmith, Caesar went to work in an auto-repair shop in his teens, later started a small bus service. In 1925 he joined forces with the late Eric Wickman, who had been building up a bus system in Minnesota since 1914, when he started with...
Glass Screens. A Fiberglas yarn for window screens has been put on sale by Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. Highly resistant to corrosion and weathering, the material has the further advantage over metal that it can be dyed in permanent colors. Price of standard mesh screening: about 16½ a sq. ft., approximately the same as bronze or aluminum screening...