Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Then she had a heart attack and retired from show business. Last week, on her 50th birthday, five-foot Dollie was down to 154. Said she: "It's simple. All anyone has to do is diet properly." She did it by cutting down to 800 calories a day (normal U.S. diet: 3,000 calories...
...turn out such big items as bombers, ship generators and half-tracks. But they subcontract their orders to thousands of small businessmen. Examples: Lockheed Aircraft Corp. has signed up 4,000 firms, of which 2,835 are small businesses (fewer than 500 workers) ; General Motors Corp.'s normal list of 12,500 suppliers will soon be swelled to 19,000 by subcontracting...
...normal July, Kansas is as hot and dry as a wheat beard in the afternoon sun, with searing winds browning the stubble and curling the corn leaves. But this is no normal year. June was the wettest month in Kansas weather records (since 1886), and the rain continued into July. When torrential rains poured down last week, there was nothing for the water to do but run off the saturated soil. It ran with a fury never before seen in Kansas...
...whose sales have been "slow to lousv" for four months. Textron, Inc., whose rayon weaving mill in Suncook, N.H. closed down for vacations at the end of June, decided to postpone reopening of the plant indefinitely; its nylon weaving plants closed down for two vacation weeks instead of the normal...
United Air Lines this week was forced to ground its six DC-6Bs, the line's biggest and fastest planes, and lop 9,300 miles off its normal 188,000 miles of flying schedules. Reason: the pilots would not fly them unless they got extra...