Word: graded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fundamental principle," however, Mr. Firestone admitted there was and never had been "cooperation . . . cordial and constructive." That principle is the making of special brands (third and fourth grade) of tires for chain stores and mail-order houses to market at cut-rate prices. Mr. Firestone also makes third and fourth grade tires but chiefly to enable his dealers to compete. So did Mr. Tew, Mr. Davis and Mr. Litchfield until last fortnight. Then they agreed to drop the cheap lines they market under their own names, tried to coax Mr. Firestone into the scheme. Mr. Firestone would have none...
...they eliminated their own cheap lines, Mr. Tew, Mr. Davis and Mr. Litchfield simultaneously downed prices on their high grade brands. Not until last week did Mr. Firestone follow suit, and when he did, he cut his cheap tires to mailorder levels. Though the general list-price cut was about 20%, it merely brought quoted prices into line with actual selling prices. Concessions and shading had long ago made the old list-prices a pleasant fiction. Observers last week agreed that Akron's latest upheaval had done little but clear the field for Mr. Firestone and the mail-order...
Farmer Schroeder declared he fed his hogs only high-grade refuse from Northwestern University and fine cafes. Furthermore, he complained, the 110-lb. one-time dancer had "pushed and bruised" him (270-lb.) when he tried to keep her off his farm. He had not, he admitted, used "Bible talk" in remonstrating with her, but neither had she. "She called me names I don't believe proper to mention here...
Generally the best doctor for a U. S. traveler in Latin America is a resident member of the American Medical Association or a graduate of a high grade U. S. medical school. For various ailments. experienced travelers point to the following as among the best...
...were selected in a blaze of glory and then carefully cloaked from vulgar inquiry, have come once more, and in a very fitting manner, to the attention of all. The senior of their number, now seventeen, has just been elected to Phi-Beta Kappa, with a truly prodigious grade average and amid appropriate eclat. Northwestern seems to feel that this vindicates the essential wisdom of her experiment, and even Dr. Flexner declares that he is reminded of his old dream of a prodigy high school in New York...