Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herter married Mary Caroline Pratt, daughter of a staid and wealthy Standard Oil family (they now have three sons and a daughter), and took his bride to Switzerland, where he was on State Department assignment to help draw up a prisoner-of-war agreement. After that he went to the Versailles Conference, officially as a secretary but unofficially as hearing aide to U.S. Delegate Joseph Clark Grew, who was growing increasingly deaf. In 1921 Herter returned to the U.S. as secretary to Commerce Secretary Herbert Clark Hoover in the Harding Administration...
...Among them: Dominion Explorers Ltd., Round Valley Oil Co. Ltd., W. R. Newman (Joseph H. Hirshhorn interests), Texaco Exploration Co., California Standard Co., Talent Oil Co., David Rosen (Sun Oil Co.), Sky Chief Explorations, George Radisics, Charter...
Furthermore, in the Admission and Scholarship Newsletter, Bender questioned the meaningfulness of the statistics. "Are the measures we use for prediction, particularly College Board scores, drifting slightly so that a 650 score today is not as 'good' as a 650 four years ago? Or are the faculty raising their standard for grades, or failing to rise to the challenge of an abler student body?" he asked...
...Depression, Frye merged Standard into Western Air Express, which later merged with Transcontinental Air Transport to, become Transcontinental & Western Air, a pioneering coast-to-coast airline. (T.W.A. billed itself as "The Lindbergh Line," kept Charles Lindbergh on the payroll as an adviser, but dropped the title in 1938 when Lindbergh made isolationist speeches for America First...
...T.W.A. vice president, Jack Frye was equally at home with his burly, 6-ft. 2-in. frame folded behind an executive desk or behind the stick of a plane or draftsman's board. He helped develop some of the planes and practices that became standard among world airlines. With new planes, T.W.A. cut the transcontinental flight time from 48 hours to 16, and at 30, Jack Frye was elected the line's president...