Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of New York and Boston alumni have petitioned the Alumni Association to nominate Laurence E. Bunker '26 for the Board of Overseers. The New Bedford Standard-Times yesterday reported that the action was taken in protest against what some termed the University's "pro-Oppenheimer" policy...
...reason for the action was given to the Alumni Association, but the Standard- Times reported that several of the petitioners, who were unidentified, said their action could be considered a protest against the Overseers' approval of the selection of J. Robert Oppenheimer as 1957 William James Lecturer...
...digits when it falls behind the trading pace on the floor, can recognize and signal mistakes in quotations in a matter of seconds. The system is so swift that it would be possible to average all the 1,500 shares listed on the exchange, on an hourly basis. But Standard & Poor's feels that the new index will do just as well, since the stocks not in the index are little traded, have little effect on the market...
...Though Texas had to be paid off before it moved, the resulting production boost will solve some problems for oil lifters. Jersey Standard Oil President M. J. Rathbone told a House committee that in order to get 1,365,000 bbl. of fuel oil for Europe, his buyers had to accept a tie-in deal from three refiners for 302,000 bbl. of "unwanted" gasoline. Yet so far, testified Rathbone, Jersey Standard has tailored its lift to Europe's needs, shipped 20 million bbl. of crude, only 431,000 bbl. of gasoline. Asked the probers: Was the recent boost...
Large blocks of Tidewater were held by Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), which created Mission Corp. as a holding company for Standard's stock in Tidewater and Skelly Oil. So Getty started to buy into Mission. By 1936 Getty owned 46% of Mission's stock, by far the biggest share, and elected all but one of his directors in a bitter proxy fight. That gave him control of Skelly Oil, but not quite enough to pocket Tidewater. After three years of knee-and-gouge battle, Tidewater made peace with