Word: graded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Only the Jews have money, and only a few of them. Anti-Semitism runs high. The old wealthy and middle-class people are practically wiped out. A few low-grade nouveaux riches take their place...
...grade nouveaux riches...
Muscle Shoals. Use of the plant at once for manufacture of nitrates needed for munitions of war and especially for production of cheaper and higher grade fertiliser, without limit...
Alvaro Obregon, Mexican President: "Near Tepic, State of Nayarit, I narrowly escaped death, when several cars of a train in which I was traveling became uncoupled from the engine on a steep grade. Carrying me, the cars dashed madly down the incline for several hundred yards, eventually came to a halt...
...year of this treatment, it is said, the petroleum left in the pockets is forced toward the old well-shafts, and can be pumped out in considerable quantities. New York State owns extensive though run-down oil fields in Allegheny and Cattaraugus Counties; it is estimated that the high grade oil obtainable there through the new flooding process will cost only $2 a barrel to extract, and can readily be sold for twice that sum. The State geologists estimate the recoverable oil in these fields as being worth $510 millions, with a possibility of $270 millions profit to the State...