Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what silk the U.S. has left WPB tightened its grip last week, even at the Army's expense. After March 1 "no silk may be used in the manufacture of parachutes until the grade and type has been approved by the Defense Supplies Corp." Evidently the Army had been wastefully using it on parachute shroud lines and cords instead of saving it for canopies. If nylon is subjected to similar husbanding, women can at least feel that their sacrifice is necessary...
This wealth consists of high-cost, low-grade ore reserves, mostly scattered throughout the West. Five years ago the U.S. sneered at the absurdity of autarchic economics when the Hermann Göring Works was built to use Germany's low-grade iron ore. The U.S. then had more rich ore than it could smelt. But in wartime every paper resource may be a real resource, and price is no object. If the U.S. is in for a long war, Ickes' adventure into autarchy may mean the difference between victory and defeat...
...strongly of the opinion that if legal means can be found to prevent the marriage of enlisted men below the grade of duty sergeant [lowest variety], it should be prohibited...
...first baseball game. She sits in the press box, observing that it is silly for her paper to have two men to cover a game when it has only one man in Vichy. For anyone remotely familiar with baseball, her painful introduction to America's favorite sport is Grade-A comedy...
When Stevens went to Hollywood at 17 (1921), he had carried many a spear in his father's dramas, had stopped school after a year in high school, failed to make the grade at shortstop with the Oakland Acorns baseball team. Over his father's bitter remonstrances ("A cameraman's no better than a lousy stagehand"), he became the youngest and one of the best cameramen in motion pictures...