Word: standardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After free-lancing in New Zealand and Australia, David Low went to England in 1919, where he drew for the London Star ' until 1927, when Lord Beaverbrook hired him for his Evening Standard. There he has ever since made fun of his employer's arch-conservative opinions. This month, A Cartoon History of Our Times, the seventeenth and best collection of David Low's work, with an explanatory text by Quincy Howe (author of England Expects Every American To Do His Duty), is to be published in the U. S.* Covering the hectic years...
...There is no standard diet to fit all ages and classes. A hard-working farmer or laborer needs an abundance of fuel foods such as bread, potatoes and meat. A growing child needs almost twice as much food as his sedentary father. A Southerner needs less starch, sugar and fat than a Northerner. A desk-bound businessman needs practically no white bread, potatoes, cakes and pies. But for health and longevity, eaters of all ages and classes must tuck in one quart of milk every day, a variety of vegetables, fruits, fresh red meat, fish, and eggs several times...
Although he headed Lockhart Iron and Steel Co. (founded by his father, who was also a co-founder of Standard Oil Co.), looked like Andrew Mellon and had a finger in several Mellon enterprises, few had ever heard of old John Lockhart. He was born, lived and died in the same street in Pittsburgh's east end. He ate sparingly, rarely drank, never married. No intellectual, he read few books, but was fond of the theatre and made a hobby of collecting theatre programs, which he always had autographed by his companions. He was a member of Philadelphia...
...days behind it, the Alcoa case was last week already the longest trust-busting suit in U. S. history. Only comparable suits in duration and importance were the 50-day prosecution of the Sugar Institute in 1933, the 120-day prosecution which resulted in the dissolution of the old Standard Oil Co. in 1911, and the 31-day prosecution which resulted in breaking up the tobacco trust the same year...
...weather its incendiary bullets are handy. They drive the enemy out of his flaming cover into the open where he can be mowed down by gunners firing at the rate of 600 lead-cored slugs a minute. Within 600 yards the shocking power of its standard bullets is terrific-one burst can tear away a man's face, one slug in shoulder or ankle can knock him sprawling...