Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Filter Derby." U.S. Congressman John A. Blatnik calls it "a lot of hot air." In the hotly competitive tobacco industry, the claims fly thick and fast, with half the firms advertising that their filter fliters best of all. To settle the argument, the Federal Trade Commission wants a single, standard test for all filters. Meanwhile, for what the public, the companies, the U.S. Congress thinks, see BUSINESS ESSAY, Those Cigarette Claims...
...asked that amount in damages from 1) two small Jersey corporations that owned and operated the plane in which Todd was killed last March, and 2) Michael Todd Co. (chief stockholders: Liz and Mike), which shared in "maintaining and controlling" the plane. Suing their own company was a fairly standard legal gimmick to provide funds for Liz's 15-month-old daughter and to lessen the tax bite: damages paid on court judgment could be tax free...
...save over 90% of the population and restore the pre-attack American standard of living in less than ten years," said the subcommittee, "should be sufficient incentive to give civil defense its rightful place in the defense system of the U.S. . . . We are confronted with the grim, brutal reality of the nuclear threat. An ostrichlike policy will not save American lives and property...
Though the U.S. will not have its own list ready for at least two months, it promptly made it clear that it would hold to its ban as far as Communist Asia (China, North Korea, North Viet Nam) is concerned. Other nations follow no such double standard for Eastern Europe and Asia. They will now be allowed to export to any country that wants them such newly freed items as civil aircraft (including turboprop), all kinds of trucks, tankers under 18 knots, industrial diamonds, all petroleum refinery equipment, all turbines and diesel engines. But for all their cries that...
...Catholic clergy, his other kin deeply anti-Puritan. Gage himself, while avoiding prosecution as a priest, got help, refuge and money from his family and Catholic sympathizers. At length he preached a sermon of recantation in St. Paul's just six days after King Charles I raised his standard at Nottingham and began war against his Puritan Parliament. Thereafter, Gage sent to torture and the scaffold an old schoolmate from St. Omer's, a Jesuit priest. There is also some evidence that he actually informed on one of his own brothers, a priest who was executed. Another brother...