Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statements that 1) the B-52 jet bomber, supported by its jet tankers, is standard in the Strategic Air Command, and 2) the B-52 will in turn be succeeded by the B-58, a supersonic bomber, brought snorts from the Air Force itself. Reasons: 1) the B-52 depends for support, as the President said, on its jet tankers-but the U.S. now has only 30 such tankers operational, and is getting only four new ones a month under the Administration's slowdown; 2) no production contract for B-58s has yet been announced...
Steadily slipping all year, President Eisenhower's popularity rating has hit its lowest since the 1954 congressional elections (see chart). In reply to his standard question ("Do you approve or disapprove of the way Eisenhower is handling his job as President?"), Pollster George Gallup last week reported these answers...
...nearly 10% more than during the same week last year. And strong earnings reports kept rolling in from dozens of big and little companies. In electronics and appliances, General Electric, Motorola, Westinghouse, all had better nine-month earnings than last year. Oil companies such as Cities Service, Ohio Oil, Standard Oil of California, Standard Oil of New Jersey also posted new gains; Jersey Standard had an alltime record of $660 million for 1957's first nine months, 9½% better than...
...main-line service. The Pennsylvania, after experimenting with lightweight trains between Washington and Philadelphia, ordered six new light electric cars of a more conventional design from Budd Co. for commuter service. The Chicago & North Western checked lightweight trains, but instead ordered 13 conventional-weight cars last week from Pullman-Standard. Surveying the trend, N. C. Dezendorf, boss of General Motors' electromotive division, admitted: "Several years ago, when lightweight trains were first discussed, there was tremendous enthusiasm among railroads for them. I was turning down orders. There's none of that now. The Eastern roads, which were the most...
Wolfe was facing "one of the oldest--what for the creative mind must be one of the most painful problems of the spirit--the search for a standard of taste. He had, at seventeen, as a sophomore, triumphantly denied God, but he was unable now to deny Robert Browning...