Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the nation's copper production was almost back to normal this week, the strike will cost the defense effort an estimated 30,000 tons of copper-scarcest material in the defense stockpile-as well as the zinc and lead mined with it. Result: a complete reshuffling of defense production schedules...
This year's class will be about 50 small than '54, but such variations are normal. The admissions office can never be sure in May what the shrinkage will be over the summer...
...Boston doctors had encouraging news for rheumatic fever victims: of 1,000 cases studied, 605 were still alive (and most of them leading completely normal lives) 20 years after the disease...
...faint wails were coming from the fetus. The phenomenon, which may result when air reaches a baby through prematurely ruptured membranes, is not unknown, but it has rarely occurred so early. Except that the wails made her a little "nervous," the patient was feeling fine, looking forward to a normal delivery in a few weeks...
...gravity fades away. Could the weightless pilot, whipping through space at seven miles a second, depend on his sense of vision alone to keep his balance? Maybe. One of the doctors suggests a way to find out: 1) put a congenital deaf-mute (who has never had a normal sense of balance) in a diving suit; 2) submerge him until the buoyancy of water exactly balances gravity; 3) then give him "tasks of visual orientation" to perform...