Word: standardizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city's staple foods, jumped six times in one day; then the fish all but vanished from the market. By night the incandescent white light of star shells blossomed periodically in the skies around Shanghai. Tracer shells splashed lines of red along the horizon. One shell hit a Standard Vacuum Oil Co. tank near the Whangpoo and 2,000 tons of gasoline went up with a whoosh, burned for 24 hours...
Pack One. Other industries did likewise. Kling Furniture Factories brought out cheaper new lines and priced their regular furniture 4 ½% to 10% lower. Most of the major tiremakers had introduced low-priced tires and even some automakers were joining the parade: some "extras" became standard equipment. This week General Motors Corp. cut its auto prices from $10 to $40 as G.M. wages (tied to the cost-of-living index) came down 1? an hour...
...Union's statement follows in part: "A further restriction of academic freedom now appears to be imminent through extension of the principle that a man's political beliefs and affiliations can in themselves serve as a standard to determinte his eligibility for membership in an academic community. For as a result of the attention drawn to the cases of Hans Friestadt and Isador Edelman, AEC fellows selected by the National Research Council, it has been proposed that loyalty tests be administered to determinte the acceptability of candidates for government-financed scholarships...
...lots of criticism. It was too slow, too big; it could not maneuver. At one time there was a serious move to halve the B-36 contracts. This was squelched when the Air Force appeared happily bearing the results of its tests. The B-36 had left standard jets gasping for air at its 40,000 foot operating altitude; even the F-86, which had grabbed the world's speed record, could not keep up with it at this height. The tests convinced Secretary Johnson and Congress, in that order; on April 23, the keel of the "United States...
...University. But already eminent men have refused appointment to the University. Thomas Cook, a conservative historian, has resigned because of the firings. A letter signed by 430 leading educators and scholars was sent to the Board of Regents claiming that its action was tantamount to the establishment of "a standard of political orthodoxy . . . the next step may be whether a belief in Catholicism or the single tax are acceptable. Both of these are doctrines of considerable rigidity and both have been at times highly unpopular...