Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These averages are derived by the prescribed ICC Uniform System of Accounts, which Ladd accused of "retarding the development of good management cost data." One ICC account combines water cooler ice, car cleaners' wages, detouring costs, and eye and ear tests for trainmen into one figure...
Egyptian army doctors were taken to see Israeli hospitals and medical schools. The Israeli hosts were not armed. Israelis seemed to take the Egyptians for granted, even those still in uniform...
...Once on TV when Charlie reached 17, I told my wife that Charlie would call it like Black Jack-and he did." Charlie has spent a night in jail (in Florida, when MPs arrested him for overcelebrating V-E day and adding a bright red tie to his uniform), hitchhiked 4,000 miles around Europe, swum near Barcelona and skied in Switzerland. Says a friend: "He has never wanted for girls. They're usually attractive and not intellectual fireballs." Charlie can even cook. His specialty: chicken pilaff...
...zannes, 21 Monets and 24 pre-Cubist Picassos. But it will probably be years before the full glory of Soviet modern-art acquisitions is considered safe enough to be seen. Modern art is still suspect. Says cautious Hermitage Director Mikhail Artamonov: "Modern Western art is not uniform. Some new paintings are quite unacceptable for us, though doubtlessly there are some outstanding achievements of modern...
...single problem, say railroadmen, is the archaic system of regulations enforced by Interstate Commerce Commission. Says Pittsburgh & Lake Erie President John W. Barriger: "The ICC's current rules are as economically stupid as 18th century medicine. They are killing the railroads. If General Motors had to wear our uniform in this league, it would be busted in two years...