Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student in V-1 who fails to remain in college through the first two calendar years, or who fails to pass the V-1 comprehensive examination with a sufficiently high grade, will be permitted to go to one of the Navy's flight training centers provided he can pass both the physical and mental examinations for prospective aviation officers. The mental examination henceforth will be the same as that given to all candidates for flight training...
...China the Jap took a vital supply of rice and minerals; from Malaya, Java. Sumatra he got rubber; in Borneo he hastened repair of blown-up oil wells; from the Philippines and the erstwhile Dutch islands his diet was sweetened with sugar; from China he got cotton and high-grade bituminous coal. Japanese sources reported that in Java great Japanese banks (Yokohama Specie Bank, Bank of Taiwan) were already exceedingly active. The Jap's New Order in Asia was potentially one of the richest economic units in the world; already the Japanese felt heady enough to discourage...
Chief Specialist John Geston, in charge of the Naval Sci conditioning classes, was made a junior grade Lieutenant in the Naval Reserve and will leave today for Annapolis for similar work there...
...smelters who hold no priorities, almost any kind of steel scrap is worth almost any price. No. 1 bootleg method is to "upgrade" a load of low-grade scrap with a thin top layer of good scrap, sell the whole thing at the top limit for good stuff, exchange winks with the buyer...
Rubber companies ask to be excused for the limited tire production resulting from their unfamiliarity with new-low grade materials which is formed in relatively few molds used 24 hours...