Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making hexamine for the new explosive, key trick was to turn out the chemical in a special grade. The size of the granules had to be changed from earlier manufacture; moisture content and other properties also had to be changed and closely governed in manufacture...
...switch may not be noticed by the 18,000,000-odd readers (6,000,000 combined circulation) of This Week. Their magazine is a boiler-plate assemblage of Grade-B fiction, short articles of the type known as "punchy," home economics and familiar homilies. This Week avoids all controversial issues. The result is pallid fare. But This Week, now eight years old, is a very profitable venture. Last year its advertising revenue reached $7,000,000, and member papers shared profits greatly exceeding the price they paid (as little as $7.50 per 1,000 copies) for carrying the magazine. Backer...
...schools fought over grade labeling, over dollars-&-cents ceilings, over how to make OPA orders understandable, over how to work subsidy payments, over making Lou Maxon "general manager" of OPA. Prentiss Brown had not been acting like a strong administrator. Now he told reporters that OPA was not "coming apart at the seams," then admitted he would have to decide between Galbraith and Maxon within the month. This week Galbraith resigned. This might end the internal confusion. It could not stem the outside pressures...
...Ella Thomas of Georgia, WAVES third class yeoman. She was brushing up on English grammar in Atlanta, where she has a Navy clerical job. > Seaman First-Class Marvin R. Eienbass of Michigan, studying on the high seas to be an automobile mechanic. In six lessons he has had no grade lower than...
...large, moon-faced Virginian, 56 years old. Unschooled (sixth grade), he learned about printing by working for a printer in Scranton, got a working knowledge of make-up in a Connecticut advertising agency. He even studied at a Better Vision Institute. After writing for printing trade publications, he got a job at New York University teaching typography on a commission basis (his pay: one-third of the tuition his students paid). In ten years Farrar upped enrollment from...