Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glad fo see FIME Magazine is regressing fo fhe old use of fhe "F" in fheir arficles. Call special affenfion to "Cliff" Hofel June [16]. For modernists, however, couldn't we condescend to call a spayde a spade, a Cliff a Clift...
...seven nuclear reactors, engineers and scientists and a 20-year supply of reasonably priced U 235 for a new $350 million European power grid that will generate a million kilowatts of power. Since Europe needs cheap nuclear power more than the hydroelectric rich U.S., Ike believes the U.S. can use Euratom experience to study problems of nuclear-power development, will benefit even more because Euratom will inevitably pull European nations toward a healthy European unity...
...encouraged Boeing in its plans to produce a commercial version of the KC-135 (some of which will be in operation by major airlines by the end of the year), and encouraged the Air Force's Special Air Missions squadron to assign three passenger models to Washington for use by the President and other top U.S. dignitaries...
...international standards was recognized 50 years ago but did not attract worldwide attention until World War II. In 1947, shortly after the International Organization of Standardization was formed, doctors discovered that an order of Swedish hypodermic needles rushed to epidemic-stricken Egypt did not fit U.S. syringes in use there. Needles to fit eventually arrived-but not until hundreds of victims had died of cholera. Since then, the organization, working through scores of national standards groups, has approved 58 worldwide standards for everything from musical pitch to the abrasion resistance of rubber...
...explore automation. A third new division, Aerojet-General Nucleonics, is about the most successful of all. Founded two years ago to study the application of nuclear energy to rocket propulsion, it soon went far beyond. The division, says President Kimball, has sold more nuclear reactors for commercial and research use than any other U.S. firm, will soon have 15 around the U.S. at $95,000 per copy...