Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planned to ration most of the foods which had become point-free earlier this year: meat (including utility-grade beef), canned vegetables, fats...
...Costa Rica's population is 700,000. In 1940 it had only 174 doctors, 224 druggists, 55 dentists. There were some 400 lawyers, 3,000 teachers (education is free and compulsory but only one in ten reaches the sixth grade), only 500 soldiers, 150 priests. Costa Rica's population is increasing phenomenally (27% between 1930 and 1940, compared to a U.S. gain of 7%). But two children out of 15 die before their first birthday...
...valiant, skillful flyers of Burma's treacherous Hump route were not all heroes. Last week the Army ruefully revealed that some had been low-grade scoundrels. Working with experienced Chinese, Burmese and Indian gangs, they had been smuggling gold, jewelry, drugs, arms and other contraband from India to China for more than two years, had piled up personal profits amounting to more than $4 million...
...have not completed fourth grade...
...have only an eighth-grade education, or less...