Word: standardizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back at the 'Cliffe, Miss Brewerton has shunned standard undergraduate activities, and service on the Student Government Assembly, pleading that she needed all daylight hours for study since her eyes aren't what they used to be. Radcliffe's oldest senior was also excused from the two years of compulsory gymnasiuf demanded of 'Cliffedwellers...
Labor leaders have never liked cost-of-living "escalator" contracts, on the grounds that they tie the worker to a fixed standard of living. But no C.I.O. officer complained about the G.M. contract. Big labor, at last, seemed to. be interested in stability. The only C.I.O. leader who could be unhappy about it was Boss Phil Murray. His steelworkers, tied to a contract which forbade a strike, had got nothing (TIME, May 3, 17). But there was some wistful talk that the steelmakers might pick up the Detroit cue. The prospects for a peaceful labor summer in big industry looked...
...Newark's Public Safety Director John B. Keenan vetoed the Hotel Sheraton's plan to put its waitresses in transparent skirts (standard procedure in Sheraton hotels in 16 other cities). Said Keenan: "What other cities do has no bearing on what we do in Newark...
...calculator pairs the measurements with the one suit (out of 500 choices) which most nearly matches them, then automatically calculates the way the suit should be changed at the factory to make that standard suit fit the individual measurements. (Some 500 Manhattan bigwigs, who got "trial-run" PhotoMetric suits, reported excellent fits...
...Mellon-trained man who has worked for the family since 1919. Into the presidency went Vice President Sidney A. Swensrud, 47, an oilman right after old Bill Mellon's heart. An honor graduate of Harvard's business school, he left a teaching job there to join Standard Oil Co. (of Ohio) in 1928, was vice president in charge of production when Bill Mellon hired him a year ago. With Swensrud as chief administrative officer, Gulf is certain to continue on its big-spending Mellon way. As a starter, it will spend up to $20 million3 on development...