Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor can expect nothing but a raw deal from defense. The possibility was enough to start a near-panic among coal users, whose average supply last week was enough to last only 34 days (23 days for railroads). They soon found it impossible to get April delivery (on high-grade industrial types), bought all they could get for May and June delivery...
Hollywood claimed Welles never would make the grade. From the moment he arrived there its citizens resented him and his Martians and his youth and his talent. When he grew a beard for his first film, a sporty pressagent sent him a bearded ham for Christmas; while he was dining out one evening, a playful actor cut off his tie with a table knife; columnists dubbed him with nicknames like "Little Orson Annie." At announcements that his first two productions had been called off, the town nodded knowingly. He was just a big bag of publicity...
...Louise," an opperetta with Grade Moore, is the choice of the French Talking Films Committee for this week's French movie. It will be given, as usual, at the Institute for Geographical Exploration on Thursday and Friday...
...tons. Third "if" was allocation of orders: maximum production, said Dunn, can be reached only if orders are spread evenly throughout the industry. Fourth "if" was a shift back to Bessemer steel: little-used old Bessemer ovens should be put to making steel for barbed wire, nails, low-grade pipe...
...address: "Dear Mr. Willkie, Your speech last night was very good. I heard my grandfather jump up and down. The poor cat and dog were scared stiff. In the afternoon I went out and slid with a tin pan. I am nine years old, and am in the fourth grade. Sincerely yours, Hilda Thompson...