Word: standardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First result of their parleys was announced by Homer Martin. He was preparing a blanket union contract for some 2,000 plants which make parts for Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, et al.; parts makers who are, of course, dependent upon their big customers for economic life. A standard contract would fix the minimum hourly wage at 65? for some 250,000 supply plant workers...
...favorite teams. They knew what to expect from a team that used the Notre Dame system, what to expect from a team that used the Warner system. But the universal practice of scouting has changed all that. Today no major college sticks to either of these famed post-War standard brands of play. Each coach teaches his own version of the Notre Dame or the Warner-or a cross-breeding of both-varying his attack to suit the talents of his players and to upset the calculations of his opponents. Although tackling and blocking still win most football games, contemporary...
Instead, he insists that through economic appeasement, through an extension of trade which will raise the general standard of living, the steps toward war can still be retracted. When he stated that the totalitarian states are in reality exhausting themselves while creating an illusion of strength and security, he was never on surer ground. When he described the drift to autarchy, armament, and war as a "road strewn with the wreckage of civilized man's most precious possessions", he expressed succinctly what has been said many times before, but which well deserves repetition. And when he stated that "the world...
...event of a European war, said Mr. de Valera to a representative of the London Evening Standard, "no Irish leader will ever be able to get the Irish people to cooperate with Britain while partition [of Ulster from Eire] remains, I would not attempt it myself. The present partition of Ireland is a dangerous anachronism which must be ended...
This week Weco Products Co. (Dr. West's) marketed the first toothbrush with synthetic bristles replacing the standard hog bristles imported from northern China. These new synthetic bristles are actually coarse strands of Fibre 66, and Weco claims they absorb only 20% as much moisture and dry much more quickly than the natural variety. Developed by the late Du Pont Chemist W. H. Carothers, Fibre 66 in bristle form is called "Exton," is made by forcing through small openings a synthetic resin known as "nylon," thus producing filaments in much the same way that rayon is manufactured. Because diameter...