Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prize ring in Body and Soul-as a commercialized racket that feeds its parasites, thrills its fickle crowds and lacerates its heroes in body and spirit. Despite some lip service in dialogue and commentary, he fails to do justice to bullfighting as an art, a code of honor, a yardstick and symbol of courage...
Anyone who ever worked in Washington would agree that almost any agency could always get along on less than it asked for. But there was no evidence that the House Appropriations Committee had used any yardstick but anger in making its cuts...
...Broken Yardstick. The blue chips themselves, even after their long rise, still looked cheap in relation to profits and dividends. For example, the 30 stocks in the Dow-Jones industrial average will earn this year an estimated $25 per share v. 1929's $19.31. Even at their peak of last week, they were still yielding dividends of almost 6% v. 1.9% at the 1929 high of 386 and 3½% at the 1946 high...
...still another yardstick, the Breen order seemed somewhat strange. As an outraged American Civil Liberties Union quickly noted, the production code office's parent body, the Motion Picture Association of America, was waging a legal fight against movie censorship by states and cities. Yet The Bicycle Thief already had passed muster with the official censors of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio.* Was the M.P.A.A. trying to be more censorious than the very censorship boards it was opposing? Distributor Burstyn planned an appeal to the M.P.A.A.'s directors and beyond them to the U.S. public...
...condoned. It is a principle of U.S. democracy, said Harold J. Gallagher, president of the American Bar Association, that "monopoly and privilege shall not be permitted to grow up in the land." Said Gallagher: Congress hould "formulate specific legal standards o measure the legality of business practices"-a yardstick that could be read and understood...