Word: graded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...History of a Crime Against the Food Law. Specific charges: Fruits are dried by sulfur dioxide; maple sugar often contains 80% cane sugar: prunes often are glazed with glucose, a bacteria breeder: cider is often adulterated with benzoate of soda, as is catsup; jam may be made of low-grade fruit filled with gelatin and water; ice cream is sometimes made of starch and gelatin...
Baltimore citizens,wondered what Director Woodcock would do about their- and his-soaking Wet city. Speakeasies in Baltimore have run openly and in great numbers for years. Good domestic gin, most popular drink, sells for $1 per pint. Maryland moonshiners supply the city with a fair grade of whiskey while the best drug store rye (cut) can be freely obtained for $5 per pint. Good beer is to be had from Pennsylvania at 35 cents the glass. There is little or no homebrewing because the liquor market is too wide open. Chesapeake Bay shipping provides wealthy Vets with expensive foreign...
Other excerpts: "I must insist that I prefer to take profits and buy on recessions. ... P. S. Tell the dark-haired damsel to hold on to my portfolio. ... I š am sorry . . . that you are not a prophet of the first grade...
...generation hence many a citizen of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, will be able to point with pride to his framed grade school diploma and tell his moppets that he received it on the very steps of the U. S. Capitol. Episodes to be related to Outagamie offspring happened last week in Washington...
...Doric facade of Washington's Union Station poured two trainloads of eighth grade rural school children, some of their parents, teachers and Superintendent A. G. Meating, organizer of the pilgrimage. Led by their band, clad in bright blue uniforms, the boys and girls marched to the Capitol. There they were addressed by their Congressman, George J. Schneider, and Secretary James William Crabtree of the National Education Association. After 350 small Outagamians had received their diplomas, they marched off again to the White House, serenaded and had a look at President Hoover on his lawn...