Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secret File stars Robert Alda, and its first script had a touchingly old-fashioned air. Alda, dressed in Nazi uniform, crept into wartime Germany to locate the factory where Hitler was manufacturing a bacteria bomb. There were squads of brutal and booted Gestapo, a beautiful barmaid (Was she enemy or friend?), a German professor who recoiled from making weapons for mass destruction. Alda had plenty of opportunity to make a stiff upper lip and to say things like "I'm only doing a job that has to be done...
...tumble publishing, many publishers were reluctant to open their books for audit. A further difficulty lay in the fact that there was no standard bookkeeping and auditing method in the publishing business. Groups of advertisers and their agents organized and continued to push for accurate circulation figures and a uniform method of presenting them...
Gradually, publishers realized that the practice of audited circulation would be as beneficial to them as to advertisers, and in 1914 the Audit Bureau of Circulations was launched to verify circulation claims on a basis of uniform standards. Membership was voluntary and consisted of publishers, advertisers and their agencies. The first year there were 612 members. This month, 40 years later, the roster of A.B.C. members is 3,554 (673 advertisers, 192 agencies and 2,689 publishers...
...their training. In the field they will serve under NATO's Supreme Commander in Europe, General Alfred M. Gruenther of the U.S., and his European ground-forces commander, Marshal Alphonse Juin of France. Timetable: If the go-ahead comes soon, the first West German soldiers can be in uniform by next spring...
...final power of decision over them. Consequently considerable responsibility rests with these other divisions to admit students who have shown by their previous records that they have the ability and inclination to take varied courses as well as skills within their own fields.6Cornell students in full dress Ivy League uniform at Cornell's Statler Hotel Not all Cornell men ordinarily dress quite so formally. Grey fiannel suits and sport jackets are not as much in evidence in places like the agricultural campus. Except for special occasions, they are not usually worn anywhere at Cornell...