Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always imported for U.S. artists from Ireland and Belgium, is the biggest problem. With Belgian linen cut off, prices of first-class material are up nearly 300%, and most artists are making shift with domestic cotton substitutes. (The U.S. does not grow the right kind of flax for high-grade linen canvas.) Some artists are experimenting with beaverboard, shirt cardboard, many building-board substitutes (like Masonite...
...nation of sixth-grade reading skill. It requires at least seventh-grade reading skill to read newspapers other than the tabloids. ... A recent report of the American Association for Adult Education states that there are 16,000,000 illiterates in the United States-they cannot read beyond the fourth-grade level. . . . Reading failure is a national problem...
...movie elite commands large salaries because of the scarcity of Grade-A movie talent and management. But they remain employes, not people of property, and they work for salaries. One or two of the wealthiest "may be worth five million dollars," but that is small change beside the established U.S. fortunes...
...also be good spies. The Department also made notable use of movie companies: one filmed Robinson Crusoe (never released) on a strategic island off South America; another made a huge documentary (never released) of Poland, in 1938. Artists were useful, too, from a great Wagnerian soprano down to second-grade cabaret girls. And servant girls-between 1933 and 1939 some 20,000 of them went to Holland and 14,000 to England-and the famous Nazi "tourists." All over the world the Department placed its agents in radio stations; in the more backward countries, Germans installed and operated transmitters...
...extremely powerful Lati radio station. Lati planes still use this field too, almost grazing the heads of A.D.P. workmen. To enlarge the runway from 800 to 1,550 meters, A.D.P. is moving by hand labor 120,000 cubic meters of soil, cutting and filling spots often 20 feet off-grade. But Superintendent Fred Wohn had trouble getting enough of the necessary small, hand-pushed dump trucks. A German contractor had some; when Wohn tried to rent them for the A.D.P. project, he flatly refused. Wohn finally got his trucks by sending an intermediary to lease them for an anonymous project...