Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peace & preparedness, the U.S. Army's rules for promoting officers have run on steel-straight rails: promotions to the grade of general officer, temporary or permanent, are made solely on the basis of selection; promotion to grades lower than general were based solely on seniority...
Last week the War Department gave sympathetic ear to the complaints, issued a decision that "future temporary promotions of Regular Army officers to the grade of colonel will be determined on a basis of selection. The system may eventually lead to the extension of the policy of selection for temporary promotion to all grades and in all components during the present emergency." No longer could synthetic fire-breathers of the Organized Reserves leapfrog lightly over their Regular brethren...
...skillful use of bacteriophages, low-grade infections often are rendered trivial; acute infections may be aborted; deep-seated lesions may heal without drainage; and desperate conditions may be caused to heal in a surprising manner...
Lean, sad Director Clair made his first English picture with Grade A Playwright Robert Sherwood. It was The Ghost Goes West, a satiric fantasy about an amorous Scottish shade, and it was a ten-strike (TIME, Jan. 20, 1936). But The Flame of New Orleans, scripted by Norman Krasna (Bachelor Mother), is no equal of The Ghost. Occasional touches-word of La Dietrich's honky-tonk past conveyed from ear to ear at her introduction to New Orleans' society, a wedding gown floating mysteriously down the Mississippi, shutters opening drowsily on the quay at dawn-give proof that...
...shopworkers' strike. He tried to make his workers feel the railroad was theirs too, keynoted his advertisements: "70,000 of us invite you to ride our railroad." So in the dark winter of 1931-32 labor listened when he told them the carriers could not make the grade unless labor took a 10% wage...