Word: graded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bought a $10,000 herd of dairy cattle. For some cows it paid $950 although they had been offered previously for $200 apiece. The rich milk from the expensive herd was then traded for low-grade milk from commercial dairies. "Just why ... is not apparent," said the McCarl report...
...Jones loves St. Louis as John Kane loved Pittsburgh. The paintings of both are powerful and precise. There their resemblance ends. Joe Jones is a handsome, aggressive youngster who takes no patronage from anybody. At 14 he finished St. Louis' Benton Grade School, ran away to California, ran right back to his housepainter father whom he has since painted, with a gin bottle and from the rear to hide the fact that he had but one arm. Father Jones said: "The worst thing about that whole business was sitting there all that time beside the empty bottle...
...changed from the Queen's Plate. That few U.S. race followers know much about the King's Plate is not extraordinary. The field is limited to horses foaled and trained in Ontario and owned by British subjects. Few of the animals thus qualified are above the grade of what are known at U.S. tracks as selling platers...
With four billion Work Relief dollars in their pockets, Frank Walker, Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins went to the White House one afternoon last week, spent two hours parceling out the first billion. Half of it went for highways, roads, streets, grade crossings. PWA got a quarter billion dollars for slum clearance, low-cost housing. Rural Resettlement Administrator Rexford Guy Tugwell received a round $100,000,000 to spend as he pleased. Another $100,000,000 went to Army engineers, half of it for dredging the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Two genuinely newsworthy prizes were drawn from the grab...
...years ago. Since then he has been doing bit parts and managerial work on Broadway. To See Ourselves is the first show he has produced and directed. It is also the U. S. theatrical premiére of Author E. M. Delafield (Elizabeth M. Dashwood), a capable, Grade B English literary lady (Diary of a Provincial Lady, The Provincial Lady in America), Both débuts scored tranquil, unostentatious successes...