Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Simply -" Sirs: I beg to advise that your cinema reviews are simply -.* Two cases in point appear in TIME, Aug. 12. The one having to do with Street Girl would have kept me away from that picture. The one about The Single Standard would have fortified me in my hour of waiting to get into the Capitol to see it. The two pictures merited just the opposite treatment. Street Girl was splendid entertainment, the acting capable and mature. The other could fix the attention only of one who had never been places, who was attracted by the liquefaction of Garbo...
...Notable: Armand's Powder, Chamberlain Medicine, Hawkeye Portland Cement, Rollins Hosiery, Green Colonial Furnace, Falcon Milling, Sheuerman Woolen Mills. Old Golden Coffee & Spices, Standard Biscuit, Waterbury Chemical...
This new type of filling station-in the fullest sense-is about to be erected by Beacon Oil Co., subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey. Beacon announced last week that it had made contracts for six trial stands with Hygrade Food Products Corp. which will furnish the required food and drink. The roadside refreshment stands of the country number 110,000. They did a business of $250,000,000 in 1928. In an era of mergers what is more logical than to do this business efficiently in connection with the filling station...
United Aircraft & Transport, by a stock trade, last week, acquired control of Standard Steel Propeller Co., West Homestead, Pa., maker of air propellers from aluminum alloy. United Aircraft was also organizing Northrup Aviation Corp. to take over the assets of John K. Northrup's Avian Corp., which is developing a new type of all-metal plane at Los Angeles. Recently United acquired Sikorsky Aviation Corp. (amphibians) and Stearman Aircraft Co. (commercial planes), is negotiating for Douglas Aircraft Co. (sport planes...
Enter Raskob. John Jacob Raskob, quiescent financially since he left General Motors to manage the Smith campaign for President, has bought a large stock interest in Aero Supply Manufacturing Co., Inc., called the "oldest aviation accessory enterprise in the country." Aero Supply owns Standard Automatic Products Co. of Corry, Pa., and National Steel Products Co. of Ohio. Rumored: a big Raskob-headed air corporation...