Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congenial Work. "The grade of employment to which each man or woman should be entitled should not be lower than the grade for which he or she is qualified by experience and training...
...grade of "B" for the work...
...there is no such thing as Glenn Martin's aircraft plant at Baltimore, and Bethlehem Steel may or may not be located at Sparrows Point. In short, information that is common knowledge or a matter of public record and which doesn't require even a third-grade education to digest or collate is not supposed to be repeated in print. Army's ideas of non-printable "secret" information thus included even such information as is contained in telephone directories and standard reference works. Washington correspondents hoped that the first hysteria of censorship would soon pass...
Meanwhile, last week A.P. did not lack for a Grade-A Allen story. With news of his hospitalization arrived his delayed story of a seven-hour battle "off Libya" between Nazi planes and a squadron of British destroyers and cruisers. Machine-gunned by a dive-bomber, his cruiser was repeatedly shaved by big bombs and torpedoes as it twisted in emergency turns and pumped a "hell of fire" at the enemy. The cruiser apparently was finally torpedoed, perhaps by an Axis submarine, and sank. Rescued after 45 minutes in the water, he came through luckily with only painful bruises...
...with all transport agencies overburdened, the rails may gain some immediate advantage from an increase. It will nevertheless cost them traffic later. A blanket increase falls heaviest on high-grade, high-rate freight and on long-distance shippers. The former is the most vulnerable part of railroad business, is best adapted to shipping by truck. The latter are the prime movers in a long-term threat to the railroads: the decentralization of industry toward its supply sources and markets, U.S. regional integration...