Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Virginia's Pocahontas Fuel Co., Inc., shocked his friends last week as much, he said, as if "Harry Truman had joined the Young Republican Club." The boss of one of the biggest U.S. soft-coal producers went into the oil business. With California Oil Co., a subsidiary of Standard of California, Pocahontas plans to spend about $1,500,000 building an oil terminal at Portland, Me. The 192,000-bbl. terminal will be supplied by Cal-Standard tankers...
...advertising agencies" and hastily contemplating a self-governing "code." While it considered what to do, it got the worst blast of all. In Clifton, N.J., Elementary School Principal Charles M. Sheehan flatly blamed "the late hours kept by children due to television programs" for schoolwork "inferior to my accepted standard." As an anti-TV clincher, Schoolmaster Sheehan announced some damaging statistics: "Last year at this time there were but two failures in one class. This year, in the same class, there...
...wanted the U.S. to 1) abolish present excise taxes except on tobacco and liquor, and substitute a uniform manufacturer's excise tax on all end products excluding foods; 2) limit the 1951 budget to $33.6 billion (some $11 billion below present estimates); and 3) return to the gold standard...
...Victor last week made a low bow to a competitor whose existence it had pointedly ignored. On display for RCA distributors last week went new radio-phonograph combinations which will play not only RCA's 45 and the standard (78 r.p.m.) record, but Columbia's 33⅓ r.p.m. long-playing record as well. The phonographs will be on sale early next year...
John Rockwell had trouble during the early part of last Saturday's game, but he dropped in 20 points in the second period to lead the varsity's scoring. Rockwell will be paired at his standard pivot post with Ed Smith, whose book shot has been hitting with pleasing consistency...