Word: standardizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reduction in some of Labor's pet projects. It would also require efficient redeployment of British workers to industries where they are needed most; that would cause temporary unemployment. The hard fact is that Britain cannot whip herself into trim competitive shape without at least temporarily lowering her standard of living...
Russia's standard claim to vast economic progress got one more ringing refutation last week. After long study, Australian economist Colin Clark documented his conclusion that the rate of Soviet production per man-hour of work was less than one-eighth that of the U.S. "Economic progress in Russia," said Clark, "has been uncertain and slow, and the most recent figures indicate that productivity is now only at about [its] 1900 level...
Imperial, whose funds are furnished largely by its parent company, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), will spend an estimated $40 million this year for a pipeline from Leduc to its refinery in Regina. At a time when U.S. capital is fighting shy of oil investments in Latin America, about 80% of the current spending in Canada is U.S. money...
Pleasure Boats & Violins. Potentially, says Moulton, the natural resources and the productive capacity of the U.S. could, in the year 2049, support a population of 300 million at a standard of living eight times as high as today's. In this bright future, each American would spend eight times as much as he does today for food, 16 times for housing, 20 times for clothing, and 33 times for recreation and travel...
...these early years, the new biography by the poet's grandson, Charles Tennyson, supplies much material never published before; Alfred hated to talk about them and his son, Hallam, had to scant them in his standard memoir of 50 years ago. Nothing, however, could so testify to Tennyson's magnetic power as this veneration by the second and third generations of his family. Charles, a distinguished lawyer and civil servant who is now 70 himself, remembers his towering grandfather in old age, shuffling downstairs in the morning and extending his great withered brown hand to the children...