Word: standard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every 1939 Custom Imperial Chrysler sold last week had as standard equipment a hydraulic clutch which eliminates any mechanical connection between the engine and the wheels. Called fluid drive. Chrysler's innovation removes the necessity for gear shifting and clutching except when a car is pulling heavily or backing...
Putting over big deals with the aid of champagne suppers and chorus girls was standard business technique of the roaring 1920s. Trying that technique on representatives of the biggest business in the land-the U. S. Government-was last week among the allegations brought against William P. Buckner Jr., 31, a smooth, sporty lawyer who lived in The Bronx but could boast kinship with Thomas A. Buckner of New York Life Insurance Co. (uncle...
...Baltimore, given 30 to 35 days in jail. The Government accepted the lesser pleas last week, said Assistant U. S. Attorney Vincent Quinn, because "the principle . . . that seamen cannot conduct a sit-down strike on an American vessel was fully established at Baltimore." C. I. O. Attorney William Standard denied that any such principle had been laid down. On the contrary, said he, the best established U. S. court precedent is that a strike aboard a ship in safe harbor is not mutiny...
...viceroy signed over to Paris acknowledgement that Tunisia was a protectorate of France. This protectorate Italy did not "recognize" until 1896, and Turkey did not recognize it until 1920. Italians in 1881, were more numerous in Tunisia than were the French, and if nose-counting, or race is the standard of justice, then Italy has almost as good a claim as France. That Italy would like to press that claim was evident last week when Count Ciano told the French Ambassador that as far as Italy was concerned the 1935 Laval-Mussolini agreement was dead...
...plight was reflected in the fact that the pound sterling was under such pressure that the price of gold in London went to the highest level in history ($34.70). There were persistent rumors that further devaluation of the pound was the only recourse-and when Britain left the gold standard in 1931 the U. S. suffered 18 months of deflation...