Word: standardizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Retrenchment would not be accepted without a fight. The restive T.U.C. membership would argue long and harshly over their leaders' counsel. To a Washington estimate that the new economic policy would depress the British standard of living by 4%, a harassed Labor policymaker last week made a grim and exaggerated rejoinder: "Four percent! If only it were 4%-it would be paradise. The ghastly truth is that Washington would be nearer the mark if it said...
British traders made another highly specialized export effort last week. In Manhattan's Washington Market, the season's first grouse went on sale. On hand were 103 brace (i.e., 206 birds), at $10.50 a brace, or about $3.50 a pound. That was the standard price for grouse; there was no extra charge for the fact that the birds had been bagged by George VI and his hunting party in Scotland (TIME, Aug. 22). The thing for U.S. gourmets to do, of course, would be to wash the illustrious birds down with a full cup of English mead; pyment...
...answer: "A people's democracy is not a democracy and does not belong to the people ... It is a country in which the state ... belongs to the Communist Party bosses, who can do just what they please ... A people's democracy is a country where the standard of living of the people must be kept below the standard of living of the Soviet people. Since Soviet man is superior to all other men, obviously no one else must be allowed to live better than the Soviet...
...Chicago's leading record dealer, Hudson-Ross, said that the RCA 45 "just hasn't caught on." In other cities, dealers reported that LP records were the only ones for which there was a big demand. Many retailers had trimmed prices of standard (78 r.p.m.) records as much as 50% in order to keep stocks moving. Moaned a Los Angeles dealer: "The manufacturers have got everybody in a dither...
...they can get it away from the kids. The Saracen's Head can be read in an hour, but in that brief time Willie runs his shaky lance through El Babooni, the infidel champ, is knighted by King Richard I himself, and unwillingly carries the royal standard up the walls in the historic storming of Acre...