Word: regularization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past years the club has averaged 25 to 30 regular members, with attendance at meetings running between 40 and 50, A crisis arose in 1939 when 'Cliffedwellers sought admission to what was then an all-male aggregation, but the problem was solved by charging the girls annual dues of $2.00, which gave them the dubious privilege of attending the meetings without the right to vote and by adding Pepsi Cola to the store of refreshments...
...Esquire had changed its tune. Said Publisher Smart: "The Varga Girl gave you the idea she couldn't do anything but recline. The new Esquire Girl is more wholesome. She's the kind of a girl you'd marry, or try to. She'll be regular art-museum stuff...
...page Anuario D.I.C., a sort of Chilean World Almanac, the Direction Informaciones y Cultura denied the popular belief that Chile was 90% Catholic. Its religious breakdown: Freethinkers, 70%; Catholics, 25%; Protestants and others, 5%. The Anurio's explantation: only 25% of the so-called Catholics were regular churchgoers, and therefore "true Catholics...
...directors of Republic Steel Corp. decided to give rough-&-tumble Board Chairman Tom Girdler a $51,000 boost over his regular $175,000 salary. At first they gave it to him in the form of an annuity, which they thought was exempt from taxes. But when the Board of Tax Appeals ruled that the sum was not exempt, Tom Girdler surrendered the annuity for cash...
...that the training unit would operate under two separate plans next fall: the pre-war policy, ending in a commission in the Naval Reserve; and, under the new bill, a system whereby the trainee would sign a contract with the Navy, agreeing to serve for two years in the regular Navy after graduation and to remain in the Naval Reserve enough additional time to complete six years of duty...