Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whoever ruled faced real problems. Bolivia's once-rich tin mines now produced only medium-grade ores. The mass of the coca-chewing Indian population was illiterate, and Bolivia's leaders had so far shown neither the vision nor energy to transform them into efficient producers and prospective consumers. One thin ray of hope: a U.S.-financed highway that would join the dry, food-scarce plateau with the verdant eastern plains, perhaps integrate the country's economy...
...virtuous man-selfless, intelligent, efficient. If despotism could be benevolent, Salazar's character was ideal material for "the good dictator." Born at Santa Comba Dao, not far from Europe's second oldest university, in a typical pink-walled Portuguese Village, he had made such good marks in grade school that his peasant mother, whom he worshiped, called him "the little priest." He entered a seminary, but later decided he had no vocation for the priesthood and became an economics instructor at Coimbra University...
...commission in other branches of the Army by attending the summer camp of the desired branch. An eight-week period at summer camp is required before the commission is granted. All expenses are paid by the government and each man will receive the pay of the sixth grade of the army while at camp. Before the war, Harvard and Yale students went to a joint encampment at Fort Ethan Allen in Vermont, but McClure doubts if this will be continued...
Seven years ago the Department of Agriculture's Beltsville, Md. Research Center, at Wallace's suggestion, began crossbreeding Holsteins, Jerseys, Red Danes and Guernseys. Using only high-grade stock, continuously enriched by new genes from well-pedigreed sires, they produced 32 two-breed hybrid cows which averaged 12,842 pounds of milk and 592 pounds of butterfat a year, well above their mothers' production, and five three-breed crosses which did even better: 14,837 pounds of milk and 645 pounds of butterfat. (U.S. average for good non-hybrids: 8,500 pounds of milk; 350 pounds...
Like the burly hero of a Grade-B Western, A.F.L. Union Boss Herbert Knott Sorrell took on ten of Hollywood's major studios last week, and won out. In a two-day strike, the 7,000 "off-production"* workers of Sorrell's young, tough Conference of Studio Unions won every wage-&-hour demand, including a 25% increase in base pay. For the first time in Hollywood history, studios will guarantee their off-production workers, by far the biggest part of their staffs, a work week. This meant that any time these employes are called to work they must...