Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME rated Reader Davey's first novel, Dawn Breaks the Heart, a creditable Grade-B performance, had no political angle...
...outlet for their idle money, banks were forced to turn to Government securities and high-grade corporation bonds; their competition for these securities pushed up prices and pressed down hard on interest yields. The yield on long-term Government bonds dropped from 3.68% in 1932 to 2.21%, on short-term Treasury notes from 2.77% to 0.5%. With the bulk of their earning assets drawing this meagre return, the banks have been hard put to make profits. Net earnings of member banks ($715,000,000 in 1929, before gains and losses on investments) have hovered around $400,000,000 a year...
...Seriously, when are otherwise sane Americans going to graduate from fifth-grade history of 1775, into a realistic world of today where the bulwark of everything priceless in mankind's struggle upward to attainment of sacred privileges rests precariously on "a tight little island's" defiance of the most obscene attack on them ever witnessed...
Principal cause of Britain's youthful crime wave was the relaxation of grown-up authority. Many a father had gone away to camp, or worked overtime in a war factory. At least half of London's compulsory grade schools had been destroyed by bombs, or converted to other uses. Parents had put their children to work (or taught them to beg) in order to bolster family earnings. With boys' clubs broken up by evacuation, social centres taken over for war work, high-spirited youngsters turned to crime out of sheer boredom...
...official gave them 40 rubles, entered it on his books as a payment for old-age pensions. They were given papers bearing a GPU stamp, so no machine shop dared to hire them. Instead, they got work shoveling earth on a railway grade...