Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prolong penicillin's stay in the blood, Army Captain Monroe James Romansky and Technician (4th Grade) George E. Rittman suspend the drug in a mixture of beeswax and peanut oil and inject it into a muscle. They find that the suspension maintains a good level in the blood for six or seven hours after injection and keeps appearing in the urine up to 32 hours. The drug is extracted from the urine with banana oil, from the banana oil with a special phosphate solution...
...achievements have been notable. Items: 1) the market value of listed stocks has risen from $31 billion to more than $52 billion; 2) the market value of listed bonds has soared from $58 billion to $102 billion. The biggest advance among bonds has been scored by the second-grade rails, thus adding substantially to the earnings of those banks which stubbornly clung to them when prices were lower...
...last week they had grossed $4,000 for their summer's work, and were planning to buy a tractor. Plywood and lumber mills at Shelton, 18 miles away, had bought every stick they could deliver, at OPA prices: $23 a thousand for mill logs, $35 for top-grade plywood "peelers.''* They brought in one scorched, dead Douglas fir which measured 9½ feet at the butt, was 210 feet long, sold...
...they tell. Over Company 4 the fellas are all agog over the celebrity in their midst--a full-fledged cinema hero, no less. The object of the adulation, particularly from such cowpuncher worshippers as Pryor, Price and Rogers, is J. B. Morris, who in pre- war days was that grade-B hero, Gene Buck, the singing cowboy...