Word: standardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present standard of living for the typical wage earner is far too low, he pointed out, and he backed this statement with recently compiled statiitics. To remedy this situation, full production must be maintained in all our industries in order to supply these needs...
Reputedly suffering from a tropical disease, bluff British Promoter Francis William Rickett, who wangled Standard Vacuum Oil Co.'s short-lived Ethiopian oil concession of 1935 (TIME, Sept. 9. 1935 et seq.), resigned as Master of Foxhounds of the Craven Hunt in Berkshire when his doctors forbade him to ride for ten months...
...figure skating championship, the hardest figuring is done by the judges. For contestants, the event falls into two divisions, school and free figures. School figures are six standard maneuvers selected by lot from the 42 that all able figure skaters have at their toe-tips. They count two-thirds of a contestant's total score. Free figures, improvisations selected by the contestants, count one-third. Contestants are judged partly on how closely the patterns made by their skates on the ice match the classic figures they attempt to execute, partly on the patterns made by their bodies moving through...
Died. Hugh M. Freer, 68, vice president of Standard Brands, Inc., New Jersey cattleraiser, uncle of Federal Trade Commissioner Robert Elliott Freer; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...high cost of rent necessary to maintain the new houses in the Administration's "slum clearance" program. As much as $7 per month per room with the government carrying almost half of the construction cost is required to give the city-dweller minimum comfort according to the American standard of living...