Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrive. Presumably concerned by what happened to a plane carrying an advance delegation from Peking (see below), Chou kept his schedule secret. At its stops his plane was surrounded by troops; it carried ten 45-gallon drums of fuel from home. When required to take on more gas (Standard-Vacuum) at Rangoon, the Communists gave the fuel a litmus-paper test. Although forced down by weather at Singapore, Chou got to Indonesia safely. At the airport, the Indonesians even went so far as to bar some of their own officials. Less melodramatically, Bandung's other featured performers streamed...
...bonny woman," said a mill girl as the red and black Rolls-Royce with the royal standard fluttering above its radiator crept through a Lancashire cotton town one sunny day last week. From the car window Queen Elizabeth II smiled at her loyal Lancastrians and waved a gloved hand. It was the Queen's first state visit to the grimy industrial county where 5,000,000 sturdy English folk spin the bulk of Britain's cotton textiles, mine a goodly share of its coal. She had come with her husband Philip to shed a ray of royal hope...
...overhead, decided to grind out this year some 390 TV films, e.g., Ford Theater, Father Knows Best, Rin Tin Tin. The studio makes about $7,000,000 worth of TV films a year (as compared to $80 million for its regular theater releases). ¶ Republic and Monogram, once standard "B" producers, have turned almost entirely to TV filmmaking. ¶20th Century-Fox is spending $2,000,000 to prepare for TV deals much like Warner's. One planned series will be based on refuibished oldies, e.g., My Friend Flicka. ¶Universal-International, M-G-M and Paramount are watching...
...important in 1955 employment contracts as were yellow-dog agreements in 1905. They even influence minimum wage laws. If Secretary of Labor James Mitchell wins congressional favor for his $.90 an hour minimum wage, the increase would just offset the inflation during the five years since $.75 became standard. In fact, booming prices have washed out every minimum wage gain since the original Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which set wages at $.40 an hour...
Frank H. White '55, chairman of the council and co-author of the report, explained that the action was designed to establish a convenient, flexible standard for the Council to decide whether a particular sports merits major status...