Word: standardizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pressman collected a whopping $37,500 for himself-with an equal amount for his co-counsel, Charles J. Margiotti of Pittsburgh, and $9,000 in additional expenses. Angrily ordering immediate payment of the whole bill, C.I.O. President Phil Murray noted bitterly: "The fee would have been outrageous, even for Standard...
...built (6 ft. 1½in., 215 lbs.) for a rugged 16-hour-a-day job, he is hearty and likable, though newsmen wince when he calls them "buddy-boy." (He calls Gable "Clarkie.") Once he proudly noted in his column that his seven-year-old daughter has a standard answer to kids who ask what her father does: "He writes the best damn column in town, and if I don't say so, they twist...
...Generation to School. Beard's influence spread beyond his colleagues, the historians. During the '20s, with his wife Mary, he wrote a brilliant and provocative survey history of the U.S., The Rise of American Civilization. The book became a standard work in U.S. schools and colleges. A whole generation of Americans learned their U.S. history in Uncle Charlie's school...
...exhausting the Mesabi's rich ores, his pilot plants were seeking economic ways of extracting the plentiful lower-grade taconite ores. (To find new iron ore sources, Humphrey's explorers, supplied by air, are also probing in Labrador.) Though many think coal a dying industry, Humphrey and Standard Oil Development are building a pilot plant to make gas (and later gasoline) from coal by burning it right in the mine. Three years ago Humphrey moved into Durez Plastics & Chemicals Co. (a 12% interest) because its raw materials (phenol and formaldehyde) come from coal...
...most plastics makers still have not caught up with demand. Though many a Gloomy Gus predicted that plastics would glut the market when scarce materials became more plentiful, they are now displacing metals in some lines (e.g., toys, 40% of which are now made of plastics). They have become standard materials for flash light cases, radio cabinets, toilet seats, shower curtains, raincoats, furniture coverings, electrical appliances. They have even been tried as eye-catching bathing suits (see cut), but wearers complain that they are clammy and uncomfortable...