Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stamping out discs 24 hours a day, and not only because of Christmas. Jukeboxes take 40% of their output, and lower record prices (35? and up for popular records; $1 for 12-in. concert records, plus 5% tax) have tapped a new market. In spite of the present low grade of popular tunes, recent estimates made 1941 the industry's all-time high year-120,000,000 discs. Current records...
...past appearances on the American screen, she displays nothing in this performance that cannot be found on any page of the Sears, Rocbuck catalogue, while that famous rake, Albert Prejcan, teaches her nothing which the Rover Boys did not known in their infancy. Featuring a distinctly amateur grade of photography and a plot which could not have passed the most leuient English A instructor, this film is definitely to be avoided. If you're a good linguist and have the sort of imagination which reads vicious innuendo into the simplest "bon jour" or "mauvais unit," you may get a kick...
...welded product is strongest at its welds. Reason: as the high-grade steel in the melting electrode is deposited, it is protected-as the mill-rolled steel which is being welded was not protected-from contamination by the air's oxygen and nitrogen. These are excluded by another gas formed by the electrode's coating (paper pulp and sodium silicate), which shields the melting metal from...
Manhattan gallerygoers, long familiar with Critic Cortissoz' crisply expressed enthusiasms and prejudices, were not surprised to find few 20th-century paintings in his hand-picked anthology. In the exclusive company of Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Renoir, only twelve U.S. artists (all dead) made the grade...
Mica. India is the chief world source of high-grade mica splittings, indispensable in electrical equipment. The U.S. is using 8,000,000 lb. a year, practically all for defense. U.S. stocks are unknown...