Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cotton, plots of tomatoes and the purple traceries, of grapevines. Mexican and U.S. farmers, industrialists and businessmen are laying out factories, hotels, lawns, streets and truck gardens with assembly-line speed. The citizens of Baja California (estimated pop. 550,000) proudly argue that the new state's standard of living is Mexico's best, a boast bolstered by the fact that its minimum legal wage is the country's highest...
...publisher of the now defunct Boston Post (TIME, Oct. 15, 1956), John Fox, 51, batted out a bullish financial column (pseudonym: Washington Waters) and choleric editorials for his paper, thus giving Post staffers their own version of the standard typewriter-testing sentence: "Quick John Fox jumped over the lazy editorial writer's back." Last week, after ten months of jumping over creditors' backs, fast-moving ex-Publisher Fox was finally arrested to face indictments charging him with nonpayment of $27,000 in wages to 93 Post staffers. After appearances before two judges and a brief sojourn in Suffolk...
...BILLION OUTLAY for oil exploration, tankers, pipelines and new plants will be made in 1958 by Standard Oil (NJ.) and affiliates...
...seater T-bird; this week Ford put out the car's 1958 successor, the ballyhooed four-seater. Ford's affection for the T-bird sprang from its surprising success. Ford expected to lose some $10 million on the car but make it up in added prestige for standard Fords. Instead, it sold twice as well as expected (53,166 produced in all), and made a profit to boot. The sleek new T-bird will be another entry in Ford's luxury-class race against General Motors' Cadillac, has been restyled for $30 million to look like...
...lunar month with a margin of error of only 2.2 sec. With the pyramids the Egyptians created gigantic scientific instruments for measuring the solar year, building their sides trued to the four cardinal directions. Using the Egyptian year, Julius Caesar in 45 B.C. made the Julian calendar standard throughout the Roman world. To these scientific measurements, later calendar makers added an overburden of myth, magic and homely folklore with advice so complete that even the best day for cutting nails and hair was indicated...