Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compliments on your article ''Strategic Metal No. 1" in the Oct. 13 issue of TIME. It earns a grade of 100 in accuracy and clarity. This is especially noteworthy since, in 99% of science articles by newsmen, points of emphasis bear little relation to the actual facts...
...Government contended that its 1911 dissolution of the old American Tobacco trust had merely changed the form of the tobacco industry without changing its practices. The companies were charged with controlling the auction markets at which tobacco is sold, with agreeing not to compete for the same grade of tobacco at the same time. They were also charged with price-fixing to consumers, by agreeing on wholesale prices for cigarets...
Retribution. In Yonkers, N.Y., when a parked truck rolled down a grade, knocked a house askew, jarred its foundation, jarred three people out of bed, the driver got a parking ticket...
...last week Henderson's Office of Price Administration announced a new ceiling: 8.25? for prime Western, highest published price for zinc (with brief exceptions) since World War I. The extra penny, said OPA, would bring out more low-grade ore, help hard-pressed mine owners in the Tri-State zinc region (Missouri/Oklahoma, Kansas) pay wages that would keep miners from shifting to other jobs. One estimate of the likely production boost...
...rattling good yarn full of the healthy animal instincts, presented in a very colorful fashion. As for the rest of the program, a fair Information Please and a not-so-good March of Time appear with the Grade Z picture "Forced Landing." If you're in the mood, "Aloma of the South Seas" is good entertainment, but cut the rest...