Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years-not weeks or months. Long before the public hears the tumult and the shouting, the preliminary buildup has been under way ... I, and several other people who were close to the Governor [F. D. Roosevelt of New York], had been pondering over his chances to be the party standard-bearer in 1932 ever since his first election to the gubernatorial chair...
...congratulate TIME for the article. The dedicated leadership, labor statesmanship and social philosophy of Walter Reuther have endeared him to the rank and file everywhere. By any standard of comparison he is the labor leader of the century...
...Benjamin) Brewster Jennings, 57, was elected Socony Mobil Oil Co. chairman, succeeding George V. Holton, 65, who retired. The grandson of John D. Rockefeller partners, Jennings started as a clerk for the old Standard Oil Co. of New York in 1920, worked up to Socony's presidency in 24 years. While remaining as the company's chief executive officer, he was succeeded as president by Albert L. Nickerson, 44, who joined the company as a service-station attendant after graduating from Harvard in 1933, has directed its far-flung foreign trade as a vice president since...
...Fake. By sprinkling grains of fact into a cheesecake of innuendo, detraction and plain smut, Confidential creates the illusion of reporting the "lowdown" on celebrities. Its standard method: dig up one sensational "fact" and embroider it for 1,500 to 2,000 words. If the subject thinks of suing, he may quickly realize that the fact is true, even if the embroidery is not. Confidential has four libel suits pending against it (including two started by Cinemactors Errol Flynn and Robert Mitchum). But few of its subjects are inclined to go to court over what the magazine prints. Said...
...year-old Chicago pleasure driver of a 954 four-door Bel Air Chevrolet pays $111 for Preferred Risk policy (including comprehen-we coverage, a $50 deductible clause, a maximum $20,000 per accident for bodily injury and 15,000 for property damage), as against $141.20 or the standard policy in most companies...