Word: standardism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third quarter export quota to 45% of basic allowances. Setting of the new quota, lowest since the Committee was formed, halted an abrupt decline in prices-19.7? a Ib. down to 11.3? since last year. Also the International Tin Committee ordered tin exports cut from 55% to 45% of standard tonnages. In Washington, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace said he would soon reduce sugar quotas in the U. S. The petroleum industry, still hopeful of maintaining current prices, cut production to its lowest point in many months-3,098,650 bbl. daily, 77.8% of capacity...
...mask dispensaries where attractive blondes demonstrated the operating technique. "I bought a de luxe model for $6.68 with a head piece that seemed like a set of rubber false teeth, with goggle eyes and a dog-like nose. It had a snubbier nose and bigger eye pieces than the standard model for $3," prattled Mrs. Packard...
...demonstration by sending the German Military Attaché in Prague, Colonel Toussaint. and the German Air Attaché, Major Moerike, as his emissaries. Wild shouts of "Heil" broke from the mass as Colonel Toussaint stepped forward, laid two huge evergreen wreaths inscribed "Adolf Hitler" and "The Adolf Hitler Standard" on the caskets...
...London had appeared news dispatches from Editor William J. Makin, of the Jamaica Standard, formerly editor of Pearson's Weekly. Wrote Editor Makin: "Starvation and abject poverty stalk this land. . . ." To heated Laborites' inquiries about Jamaica's "horrible conditions" in Britain's House of Commons young Malcolm MacDonald, Secretary for the Colonies, answered: "I am not satisfied with the position in Jamaica and the West Indies generally...
...officers and their companies: Charles E. Arnott, Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.: A. G. Maguire, Wadhams Oil Co.; Amos Ball, Standard Oil Co. (Indiana); Harry D. Frueauff, Cities Service Co., Cities Service Oil Co., Empire Oil & Refining Co.; Edward Karstedt, formerly of Continental Oil Co.; G. C. Morris, Pure Oil Co.; Alexander Fraser, Shell Petroleum Corp.; J. W. Carnes, Sinclair Refining Co.; Robert W. McDowell, Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp.; Frank Phillips, Phillips Petroleum Co.; W. G. Skelly, Skelly Oil Co., Ohio...