Word: standardizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million among West Germany's 45,000,000 are unemployed. Typically, one-third of the new unemployed are in the building trades-precisely where Germans should be at their hardest work, providing roofs for the millions of homeless in cellars and bunkers. West Germany's living standard is rising; but at the same time, the gap between the wealthy few and the great mass of workers is widening ever faster...
...folded their rigs and suspended drilling in Colombia. Last week Shell, having sunk $90 million trying to get profitably established, announced that it was forced to curtail operations. That left only two small outfits drilling for new fields in Colombia. Three big U.S. companies (Socony-Vacuum, Texaco and Jersey Standard's Tropical) have put too much money into old, producing fields to pull out now; but they have virtually given up trying to find new oil for the present...
...first, President Theodore Roosevelt sneered at McClure's for "muckraking," but Editor McClure assigned his staffers to rake more muck.* Ida M. Tarbell went after the Standard Oil Co.; Ray Stannard Baker, incensed at the land-grabbing railroads, wrote The Railroads on Trial; Burton J. Hendrick spilled his Story of Life Insurance. When aroused state legislatures passed laws checking the excesses of big business, and reform candidates were elected to public office, "T.R." saw the light and grinned. He called S. S. McClure's crusading muckrakers to the White House to discuss trustbusting and business regulation...
...Applicants are often judged on personality, leadership, or emotional stability," Bender said. "There is no rigid standard for measuring these things, and admission policy is often vague. How then can you tell whether a student has been turned down because of discrimination...
Emergency or sub-standard teachers will, of necessity, fill many vacancies, Mabel Studebaker, president of the National Education Association, predicted. "Communities everywhere must embark on recruitment programs stressing the attractive features of the profession to young people," she said...