Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With what was perhaps the best-spent $135 million in the history of business, the Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) in 1932 bought oil concessions under Lake Maracaibo to add to its Venezuelan affiliates. Now the Creole Petroleum Corp. (formed from those affiliates) is the biggest overseas investment in any single country by any U.S. company. It is also Jersey's best money earner, accounting for 48% of the parent company's dividend income in 1954. All by itself, Creole provides Venezuela with about 30% of government revenue. This week, in its fourth study entitled U.S. Business Performance Abroad...
...sophomores and juniors were left to fend for themselves. Although the owners of the private halls on the Gold Coast had sold out to the University during the war, a Gold Coast atmosphere still prevailed. Money determined the standard of living and only the club men had a regular place to eat. The three upper classes split up into tight cliques, and clubs and fraternity chapters sprang...
...whites receive preferential legal treatment in cases involving Negroes. This is, of course, widely known, and since the articles were introduced as describing other aspects of the situation here which I felt might not be so well known in the North I used the explanation of the other double standard of justice...
There is little doubt that the "emotionalism" of the NAACP has aggravated the guilty pride of the Southerner, and in publicizing the Till case the NAACP set out to provoke aggravation. For, as Mr. Halberstam says, "there is a double standard of justice in Mississippi, one for Negroes, the other for whites. On the assumption that the evidence clearly pointed to Milam and Bryant as the kidnappers and murderers of Emmett Till, the group sought to focus national and world attention on the small Southern courtroom. The state attorney general had brought the defendants to trial, but this conscientious action...
There are several other rather one-sided aspects of Mr. Halberstam's article on which we would like to comment. First, we would like to agree with (his) statement that there is a double standard of justice in Mississippi particularly and in the South generally. However, his implication that this double standard of justice operates to the advantage of the Negroes is quite misleading...