Word: standard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policies [that] restrict logistical support and various privileges to authorized dependents of personnel who are on a service-directed accompanied tour of 24 months." This was hard enough to understand even for people brought up in English. But Korean wives, most of whom are married to G.I.s serving standard, 13-month tours, soon got the idea: henceforth they were to be excluded from use of the PX. An Eighth Army spokesman was tactless enough to put the point intelligibly: "Some dependents have been abusing PX privileges through black-marketing"-and with that, the Korean wives were up in arms...
When Smith was brought into Eden Hospital in nearby Castro Valley, Dr. Stephen Landreth, 37, an orthopedic surgeon, prepared for a standard amputation. Then he had a thought: "This is too good a leg to throw away." He got on the telephone to Dr. Alan Gathright, 38, a vascular surgeon, 20 miles away in Oakland. Asked Dr. Landreth: "You want to try for a miracle?" Gathright did, and he sped to the hospital...
Help from the Clinic. In Manhattan, Consolidated Edison, Standard Oil (NJ.) and others have joined to underwrite a local industrial alcoholism clinic for their employees. Eastman Kodak and International Harvester have their own in-plant programs for finding alcoholics, also contribute to community clinics for treating them. Allis-Chalmers has set up an alcoholics control team of welfare workers, psychiatrist, attorney, "problem counselor" and "alcoholic counselor...
...first nine months. Other nine-month rail earnings: 1958 1959 New Haven $3,534,080 $7,362,154 (loss) (loss) Erie 5,487,565 5,191,812 (loss) (loss) Union Pacific 2.17 1.87 Oil company earnings for the third quarter were mixed amidst industry reports of overproduction. Big Standard Oil Co. (of California) reported a decline in nine months' earnings to $2.85 v. $2.97 last year. Despite a third-quarter drop in earnings, Gulf Oil Corp. showed nine months' results of $6.49 per share v. $6.13 per share last year. Other oil earnings: 1958 1959 Sinclair...
They Came to Cordura. Hollywood's standard brand of horsemeat is dished up with a strong sauce of metaphysics in this Gary Cooper western about a coward who shows the meaning of courage...