Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This collection of Grade A scrap steel, according to the Germans, is all that is left of a British tank force after a recent skirmish near the border between Libya and Egypt. The Germans were confidently preparing last week to add to their collection of junked British weapons. In reconnaissance-in-force across the Egyptian border, they drove two fairly strong tank columns into British forward positions to feel out strength, then withdrew them quickly. British strength in the Western Desert has grown greatly during the summer, and the British hope there will be no more landscapes like the above...
...certificate holders to approve a sale. "All big deals are one long series of headaches," he said last week. "I used stooges and dummies and anything I could think of. ... I scarcely even tell myself what I'm doing until I'm through." Rubloff, 39, quit grade school to shine shoes and peddle newspapers for a living, got into real estate in 1919 as an office boy. His only departure from the Alger script was in the lush '20s: "I made plenty of dough but I spent it-while the other boys were losing theirs...
Military Courtesy and Customs of the Service (20th Century-Fox) has everything: a plot, Hollywood actors, props and plenty of action. It is a Grade-A Production. Opening with shots of crowds milling through a subway, it moves on to the lyrical rhythm of a symphony orchestra's string section. Purpose: to show what can be done by people who are willing to work together...
...barrel-bellied "Frenchy" Raes, chief test driver for Dodge, gave one of the little command cars and a truck the works. Frenchy's working outfit was a white shirt, bow tie, suspenders, gray trousers, and a long cigar. The works consisted of darting up and down a 45% grade, growling through a fifty-yard stretch of gumbo mud that lay fender deep in a six-foot gully, then bouncing up the sides of the gully and tearing through a quarter-mile of heavy underbrush. Not even Frenchy showed signs of wear & tear...
...keep ahead of her only serious rival, The Grade Teacher (circ. 120,000), Editor Owen constantly trots around to schools, conferences, teachers' conventions. At the National Education Association convention in Boston last month, Miss Owen armed herself with a cake knife and a huge cake celebrating the Instructor's soth birthday, passed out slices...