Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anywhere from 35 to 50 gamins are expected to be guests for the Yuletide entertainment, which will feature the inevitable Santa Claus and magician, plus a two or three piece band. Refreshments will be served, and, when it comes to present giving, the committee will follow the PBH standard of giving one practical gift and one useless toy to each guest...
...such redistribution is of any benefit whatsoever to the ordinary man. Taxes are already too high. For the benefit of the ordinary citizen we must find some way of reducing them or of giving advantages to those who are in a position to contribute to raising the standard of living of our people...
...Refining Co., biggest oil leaseholder on the continent, had once held leases all over Scurry, but had let most of them lapse. Even the first wells drilled in what later proved to be the heart of the pool did not turn out well. Not until November 1948 did Standard of California's subsidiary, Standard of Texas, bring in its first big well to start the boom...
...well in 1949. Many of its sales still come from small items: last year the company sold 26 million hairnets, 31 million combs, 100 million pounds of candy. And Store Manager Herbert H. Hocher assured Houstonians that price-conscious Woolworth's has not entirely abandoned the small-change standard. Said he: "We still have a nickel cup of coffee...
...only does the loyalty order violate the substantive guarantees of the First Amendment, but it also violates the procedural right of Americans to due process. The standard of the loyalty order is that of "guilt by association," a doctrine first suggested by the Dies Committee in October, 1938 when it demanded the firing of teachers who attended meetings sponsored by alleged communist front organizations. In regard to the doctrine which is now being used by the President's Loyalty Board, Justice Murphy, in bridges v. Wixon, 326 US 135, 163 (1945) said: "The doctrine of personal guilt...