Word: standardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intervened to end a 13-day, nation-wide strike, commissioned a group of experts to study the financial condition of the $500,000,000 foreign-controlled industry. Last week the commission ordered that the 17 companies, including the Royal Dutch-Shell affiliate, Aguila, controlling 50% of national production, and Standard Oil of New Jersey's Huasteca subsidiary, make wage increases and establish other workers' benefits aggregating $7,200,000 annually. The report called for establishment of the 40-hour week, increase of the minimum wage to 4.90 pesos ($1.38) a day, and setting up of a national mixed...
...Thousands of Dollars Magazines Radio General Motors Corp. 4,439 1,117 Procter & Gamble Co. 1,293 2,075 Standard Brands, Inc. 1,141 1,263 Ford Motor Co. 1,106 680 Chrysler Corp. 1,635 430 R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co 1,585 439 Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. 1,034 651 General Foods Corp. 760 1,075 Lever Bros. 662 1,133 Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co. 1,107 947 American Tobacco Co. 919 636 Bristol-Myers...
...Daily Telegraph in eight years under the Berry Brothers went from 80,000 to 532,000 circulation, without using the stunts and free insurance schemes which have been standard promotion practice with many of the big British dailies. But it was one of the first British class papers to reduce its price (in 1930) from twopence to a penny to compete with the popular press. It still has a long way to go to reach the huge figures of the Daily Express (2,162,979), Daily Herald (2,000,000), Daily Mail (1,717,133). But in prestige and influence...
...June quarter).* Gloomed Mr. Sloan: "Much might be said as to the effect of increased selling prices on the course of the recovery movement........ . The hope might be expressed, however, that sooner or later the fact will be recognized that sound and desirable progress, reflecting a higher standard of living, never can be made possible by the policy of arbitrarily increasing wages, shortening hours and reducing efficiency, without regard to the effect on real prices. Higher real wages and shorter hours-highly desirable objectives-are a by-product of technological advance. It is an evolutionary and cannot be a revolutionary...
Bedside Manner-The man on whom Tammany last week bestowed its standard was a U. S. Senator. Certain was Tammany that it needed a potent vote-getter to win and who could be better than one of its own sons, Bob Wagner, son of a German janitor, brought up in Yorkville (Manhattan's East Side German district), beloved of Labor because lie is credited with authorship of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. But Senator Wagner, although he called politely at Tammany Hall, declined the honor. So Tammany finally staked its bets on a onetime Republican mayor of Ann Arbor...