Word: grade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South lay in this steadily growing competition. The Southern mills were nearer the raw material; cheaper and more tractable mill sites and more American labor are to be had there, too. In addition, the laxer laws as to child labor, which is a large factor in the low-grade spinning industry especially, are more lax South than North of the Mason and Dixon line...
...news comes of much large-scale building of cotton mills in the state of North Carolina; also of the dismantling of cotton machinery at Lowell, Mass., for shipment to Lyman, S. C. Undoubtedly the low-grade cotton industry will soon be dominated by the Southern mills; nevertheless the high-grade industry will probably remain in the older New England centers...
...Bureau of Mines, under 0. P. Hood, Chief Mechanical Engineer, is working on a process to produce lignite char, a fuel similar to anthracite, but softer. In Germany this material is widely used for heating and cooking, but the competition of high-grade coals has kept it back in America. With the gradually increasing scarcity of good anthracite and bituminous, lignite will become a valuable substitute...
Next day the President bad the pleasure of driving the electric locomotive of his train for twelve miles- down the steep grade of the St. Joseph River and the fire-charred slopes of the Bitter Root Mountains...
Eclecticism. There are a number of "eclectic" medical schools in the U. S., invariably of low grade, which aim to select and teach methods of value from all schools. They are gradually dying...