Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Ryerson, Wilson's complaint seemed downright ingratitude, especially since Inland will be expanding production 20% by 1952. "The automobile industry [which buys 20% of steel's total output] has no cause for complaint," he replied. "It has had steel enough to set production record after production record. It is the steel industry that made possible all the expansion in other industries." Nevertheless, if more steel users joined Charles Wilson in needling the steelmakers, steelmen might decide they could expand faster after...
This week BLS field workers and economists are hard at work collecting figures on consumer buying in seven test cities to see which new items should be put in the index. Clague has already decided to add frozen foods, home permanents, television sets (one family in three in cities where TV is available now owns a set, says BLS). Soft drinks will count more in the statistical weighting because they are "now a part of national life." More weight will be allowed for mechanical refrigeration, less for ice. The proportion for rent will be increased because of the fading...
...electric heart reviver, developed by Drs. John C. Callaghan and Wilfred G. Bigelow of the University of Toronto. An electrode is inserted through a vein to within an inch of the heart's pace-setting node. If the heart has stopped, electric pulses set it beating again; if it is faltering, they make it beat more regularly. Used so far on animals, the "pacemaker" is ready for human tests...
...late Herbert George Wells wrote this account of atomic devastation in a book called The World Set Free, which was published six months before the first World War, 31 years before Hiroshima. It seemed absurdly exaggerated to him when the war (which he had hopefully called "The War That Will End War") turned out to be just one more exchange of everyday high explosives. Not until he was an old man of 78, stubbornly sticking to his home in the heart of blitzed London, did Wells experience the "strange confrontation" of picking up the morning paper and seeing that fantastic...
...fund was set up in the Spring of 1949 in memory of Theodore Spencer, former Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, to sponsor two lectures a year on drama...