Word: standardizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, over the granite towers of Balmoral Castle fluttered Princess Margaret's own new standard.* She was 18. Coming of age meant that she will have to attend more & more official functions (her first: Juliana's inauguration as queen next month). She will also have more freedom from family control on such matters as staying out late, wearing makeup, dressing smartly. Margaret dislikes her royal duties, though she enjoys the prerogatives of her station. When she was down with measles last May she remembered a young Highland officer of her acquaintance who had had measles...
...Indonesia was the hallowed preserve of Dutch and British traders and cartels (notably tin and rubber), which all but shut out U.S. business" grievously slanders the Dutch. Before the war an unlimited number of U.S. firms could have had, and very many did have (amongst others, Goodyear and Standard Oil), vast and growing enterprises in Indonesia . . . thanks to the model open door policy of the Dutch government which welcomed all enterprises, including Japanese...
...McCormick, Britain's Beverley Baxter, M.P., drama critic (the Evening Standard) and ex-managing editor (the London Daily Express), observed: "As a journalist, I salute him . . . As a Britisher, I would not weep if he got caught up in his own presses and added a fifth color to his cartoons...
...wildcats, who have been making money, plausibly retort that without the cheap "air coach" rates most of their passengers would have gone by train or bus. Said strapping (6 ft. 3½ in.), cocksure Stan Weiss, president of wildcat Standard Air Lines: "The airlines are afraid of us, not because we are taking money away from them, but because the public and the Government now have something to measure them...
...Standard, the fattest of the dozen-odd transcontinental wildcats, started three years ago with just two converted C-47s and $90,000 of borrowed capital. Now it has eight DC-3s and $300,000 in assets, has never had a crackup. A fortnight ago Wildcatter Weiss got a chance to purr: because of a boycott of New York International (Idlewild) Airport by domestic airlines, the airport management hired Standard to fly Governor Thomas E. Dewey to Idlewild for the dedication ceremonies. Last week Weiss asked the Civil Aeronautics Board to certify Standard as a scheduled carrier, said frankly that...