Word: grade
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inland Steel President Joseph Block. At a monster rally last week (17 cops and a turn-away crowd of 2,500 teeners), Deejay Howard Miller paraded an in-person menagerie of teen-rage songbirds, drew from Singer Eddy Arnold the admission that he quit high school in the tenth grade and wishes he had not. When the din quieted, School Superintendent's Assistant Francis McKeag told the summer-happy youngsters that school would help them find a career and a mate...
Then Khrushchev let them have it. Kuibyshev was a wonderful achievement, he repeated, but was it the best way to create electricity? A hydropower station took from seven to ten years to build. But thermal power stations, using natural gas or low-grade coal, could be run up in three years or less. And the "point at issue," cried Nikita, is to win time "in the competition with capitalism, to catch up with and outstrip the United States in the per capita output of the population...
...both April and May, 1.8 billion in June). Lucas Lopes trimmed nearly $75 million from the current budget and even managed to take a symbolic batch of 7,204,800 cruzeiros out of circulation. He revamped the ruinous coffee-price-support program by making only token payments for low-grade coffee. Despite complaints from the growers, he sold 260,000 bags of four-year-old surplus coffee at about 7? to 10? less than the pegged price-and thus earned Brazil an unexpected $15 billion...
Born of Quaker parents on an Ohio farm, Will Mullin grew up in Los Angeles, where he was enough of an athlete to run up an impressive blight of injuries, including ankles ruined at squash and softball. He decided by the seventh grade that he wanted to become a sports cartoonist, went directly from high school in 1920 to learn lettering in a sign shop ("Women's Philippine Underwear, 79?"), got his first newspaper job in 1923 doing illustrations for Hearst's old Los Angeles Herald (now the Herald & Express...
...Marvin A. ("Mike") Harder, 36, professor of political science at the Municipal University of Wichita, last week lost his own precinct committeeman's seat to Donald E. Anderson, 23. Winner Anderson's oddest qualification: he earned his political science degree last June after racking up a high grade in the political parties course taught by Professor Harder...