Word: standardizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time under its own (four rocket motor) power. Piloted by 25-year-old Captain Charles E. Yeager, the first man to fly faster than sound, it streaked across the desert at Muroc Dry Lake, Calif., and was airborne after only 2,300 ft., a shorter ground run than most standard fighters require...
...attempt to catch up with Columbia, RCA Victor next day demonstrated its new, small, unbreakable record (TIME, Dec. 27). It has a large center hole, and is geared for 45 revolutions a minute (compared to the standard 78). Thus it could not be played on conventional phonographs or on Columbia's attachments. It required a new record player, made by RCA. The advantages of the new record (higher fidelity, faster changing) seemed to be outweighed by the disadvantages. Victor would not even promise that "Victorgroove" would be cheaper. All it promised was that "the new system will...
...second sequence, which has a strong satiric bite, hits a more realistic standard. It details a crisis in the home of an idealistic schoolteacher (Kirk Douglas) who rebels at the way his wife (Ann Sothern) helps earn the family living, i.e., by writing soap operas. In spite of the glass house it lives in, Hollywood here throws some viciously well-aimed stones at radio...
...subject in question was one of the 19th Century's standard true-life romantic mysteries-the deaths of Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria and his mistress, Mary Vetsera, in the royal hunting lodge at Mayerling, in 1889. But Author Lonyay (whose princely uncle later married Rudolph's widow) has had access to family accounts never published before; and by the time he has cut his brash trooper's path through the great romance, not all the Charles Boyers, Danielle Darrieuxs and Hollywood directors could put it together again...
...cracking towers and silvery balls of synthetic rubber, plastics and fertilizer plants had created a new chemical empire. Profits had helped pay for expansion. An excess-profits tax would not only nip the expansion but, if the wartime formula was followed, would hit the most progressive companies hardest (Jersey Standard would pay more heavily than U.S. Steel). As Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders said: "You can say so much against it [an excess-profit tax] that I have difficulty in understanding what anybody...