Word: codee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last action of the conference was to hear an appeal for the establishment of an international code of standards for airplane manufacture and certificates of airworthiness. Qualifications of those countries that belong to the International Convention for Air Navigation are fairly uniform. But the U.S. does not belong to that convention, and its lack of accord hampers the export of our planes, parts and accessories...
...Cheek '26 was the chief proponent of a resolution to formulate a uniform athletic code for all American colleges and universities, which was adopted by the conference of the National Student Federation of America which met in Columbus, Missourl, during the latter part of the past week...
...recommended that a national convention of student leaders, athletic directors, coaches, and athletes should draft the code and establish specific standards of amateurism, professionalism, and eligibility. Cheek pointed out that a serious disparity existed in eligibility rules and that a man could be a professional in one conference and an amateur in another...
...code requests that violations of its provisions be taken up with the proper "regional committee" of the American Petroleum Institute and should also be referred to the Federal Trade Commission. Thus the oil companies, though establishing their own board of arbitration, are attempting to cooperate with, rather than to take the place of the Federal board...
Long-planned, muchdiscussed, the code was adopted at the ninth annual meeting of the American Petroleum Institute in Chicago. Much of it might seem to consist of regulations which have become standard practices in most industries. It should be remembered, however, that the oil industry today suffers from overproduction, with its attendant fierceness of competition among more than 3,000 established oil companies. There are in this country about 320,000 oil wells with a potential daily production of about 3,000,000 barrels of oil. During 1926 the average daily domestic demand for crude oil was slightly over...