Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against the railroads, the axle-grease monopoly, the binder-twine trust. Berge learned to make speeches in fact-packed, coldly logical style while stumping the state with his father. At the University of Nebraska he was a star student, once passed a course on Poet John Milton with a grade of 95 after only a week's study. He got his law degree at the University of Michigan, gave up work in a Manhattan law firm as too dull, and went to the antitrust division in 1930. When Trust-Buster Thurman Arnold was promoted to the bench last year...
Livestock won. A Government order barred export of feed-grade barley, put much of Canada's barley in that class by forbidding farmers to clean a lush wild-oats crop out of the grain. The ruling deprived U.S. brewers of a large part of their No. 2 source of barley, Canadian prairie farmers of the tidy premium they get for sales to U.S. brewers...
...over the Reich desperate variations sounded on this single frantic theme: work and fight. Goebbels ordered eighth-grade pupils out of school into war plants. Battalions of German women formed pick & shovel brigades to strengthen the West Wall. A Swiss traveler reported that the first German women troops were already manning parts of the West Wall. The German nightmare-Einkreisung, encirclement-was coming true at last. And behind the frightened Germans stood a vast potential fifth column. Scattered throughout the Reich were some eight million foreign workers. To them last week went two calls from General Eisenhower's headquarters...
Food Machinery Corp. will also build in its ten plants, scattered from California to Florida: 1) a dehydrating haymaker-that cuts hay and rolls it so that all moisture is squeezed out; 2) a new fast-moving sprayer for orchards; 3) a potato-harvesting machine that will dig, brush, grade and box potatoes in the field...
...question of whether the Germans can put up an effective defense depends on how much time they have. Given enough time, they may be able to bring several divisions from Finland and Norway, and even from the Balkans. With time they can assemble more second-grade cannon fodder to stuff their pillboxes. Last week the process was already under...