Word: standardizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than 230 Baltic refugees have come to the U.S. in cockleshells even smaller than the Prolific. The Estonia, which brought Kou Walter and his wife and children to Florida, was only 47 feet long. The Erma, which sailed from Stockholm to Little Creek, Va., charting her course on a standard schoolboys' map of the Atlantic, measured 37 feet...
...years shark-mouthed Matyas Rakosi, Hungary's Communist boss, had been casting covetous eyes at MAORT (Magyar Amerikai Olajipari Rt.), the $25 million American-owned Hungarian affiliate of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey). Behind his greed was Moscow pressure: the American concession controlled richer fields than the Soviet-dominated joint company, Hungary's only other oil producer. The Russians had operated MAORT for a short time under Red army occupation, and wanted it back. Last week, Rakosi seized MAORT and in Washington the two U.S. citizen executives from whom he took it summed up the Rakosi expropriation method...
...bound its standard to give nothing short of the best tutorial, and obliged by University policy to dispense with Economics 10, the Department is helpless. Honors candidates must get along as best they can with non-credit guidance from a busy faculty. A Department conscientious enough to refuse inadequate tutorial should not be penalized by depriving it of its only other means of organized honors instruction. In view of the situation, there seems little reason why Economics should not be permitted to reinstate its course "Thesis for Honors...
There were also new departments on Law and Labor, and more and shorter articles; 6,000 words will now be the exception, not the standard length...
Last week, the news leaked out that Caltex Oil Products Corp., a joint subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. of California and The Texas Co., had made a deal to help build and operate a refinery in Spain, near Cartagena, at a cost of around $18 million. Caltex would put up part of the money, and own 24%. The rest would be 24% owned by Cepsa, the state oil monopoly, and 52% by another state company, Institute Nacional de Industria...