Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farm glut had its compensations. Many New York butchers last week cut the price of top-grade beef from 85 to 69? a pound, and trimmed prices on some 20 other meats. Businessmen knew that lower food prices meant more cash released for other purchases. But even those who saw no recession ahead agreed with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce: "We now face the difficult task of ... checking inflation without precipitating contraction...
...third of his shots are as pure, subtle and powerful as the whole of his Treasure of Sierra Madre-i.e., as good as the best in movies. Perhaps a fourth are ornate salon stuff (gnarled trees in silhouette, etc.), often mistaken for Art. The rest is high-grade Hollywood sound stage. It is not hard to believe that one cameraman is capable of all three kinds, but it is hard to understand why a man capable of the best could willingly put them all into one picture. That is the kind of movie Johnny Belinda...
This scheme is consistent with the most up to date thinking in education today. Last December President Truman's Commission on Higher Education reported that 49 per cent of the entire United States population was mentally capable of passing the thirteenth and fourteenth grades, or the freshman and sophomore college years. But the Commission also noted that only 25 per cent of the population ever gets as far as the fourteenth grade. For the remaining untutored 24 per cent the Commission and President Conant have urged the local two-year college, tailored to the needs of the students...
Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines Ltd. of Montreal and its U.S. partner in the Ungava venture, the M. A. Hanna Co. of Cleveland (which holds a 40% interest), were happy over the summer's work. Their engineers had already proved 300 million tons of high-grade...
...Quebec and Labrador. When Dominion Geologist A. P. Low talked about the deposits 50 years ago, Mesabi was just coming into its own, and nobody was interested in the subArctic wilderness. In 1937, when Quebec Geologist Joe Retty came out of Ungava with a more detailed report of high-grade iron ore, Mesabi was still king. But as war demand cut deep into Mesabi, Retty's reports became more interesting. By 1942 Hollinger President Jules Timmins was ready to gamble $5,000,000 on Ungava. Since then exploration drills have been biting into the northern earth...