Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Potent Boeing Air Transport last week celebrated its five-millionth mile of flying. Colonial Air Transport, Inc. has ordered two copies of TIME each week as standard equipment for its New York-Boston passenger planes...
...Mary Pickford has-created most of her reputation playing girls whose naivete was proved as thoroughly by their, actions-as by their wide-open blue eyes and the ringlets which hung, symbols of virginity, on their thin shoulders. On the stage, able young Actress Helen Hayes set a high standard of vocal expression in reading the lines. Mary Pickford has not performed vocally, for many a year. Her script was hurt when its sex morality was .cut over for film use and a windy, incredible courtroom scene introduced'. Her cast is bad and her director no genius...
...Director last week in his suite at Manhattan's Ambassador. "Take bathrooms for instance. Extr'ord'nary how little your hotel men spend on bathrooms! They tell me one really can't pay over $1,500 in New York for a bathroom with the finest standard fittings. Now in London what do you suppose we have to pay? Not less than ?1,000, or almost 5,000 of your dollars!" Though obviously keen to plunge into the riddles of "Prosperity" and "Standardization," tall, snowy-haired Connoisseur George Reeves-Smith soon consented to answer several questions which...
...earned $114,173,775. Bethlehem earnings amounted to $6.55 per share; U. S. to $12.50. Both were running at or close to capacity during March. Independents. Erroneous is the impression that U. S. Steel plus Bethlehem Steel constitute The Steel Industry. Taking tons of ingot steel as a standard of measurement, U. S. Steel has a rated capacity production of about 43% of total U. S. steel capacity. Bethlehem can pro duce about 15% of the total, leaving about 42% for independent companies. Prominent among these companies are: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. Three-fourths of the plant, nearly...
...automobile industry has developed many an accessory industry (notably tires) so the aviation industry has its accessory fields. Thus Scintilla magnetos are standard equipment on Curtiss, Wright and Pratt & Whitney engines. Thus ignition systems built by Delco Aviation Corp., General Motors subsidiary, are used on all Liberty aviation engines. As the aviation industry develops, so the making of aviation accessories increases as well...