Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...villain of the piece, for some reason, seemed to be store-clothed Harry Truman. Although it was not the President's fault that the millers, who had once taken so much pride in their patterns, were unwilling to clothe low-grade flour in the same finery, he had started the trouble. And the prospects were devastating. The Pillsbury Flour Co.'s Dallas manager sighed: "They used to say that when the wind blew across the South you could see our trade name on all the girls' underpants. Now they'll all read EMERGENCY...
...like Paul Bunyan. Paul did a lot of sizable things. He dug out Lake Michigan to mix concrete in so that he could build the Rocky Mountains. In the winter of the Blue Snow, when the Pacific Ocean was frozen clean over, he supplied the country with the standard grade of white snow hauled from China by Babe, his blue ox. But Paul was a lumberman at heart. One day while he was combing his beard with a pine tree, he invented mass production in the logging business...
...company flew in diamond drills and other equipment at a cost of 73? a pound for shipping, spent $10 million just prospecting. Last May its chief geologist, Dr. J. A. Retty, cautiously reported progress: nine finds of high-grade iron ore bodies in Labrador, 15 in Ungava. Said the trade journal Northern Miner: "The most important iron ore discovery in America since the finding of the Mesabi range...
Damning Evidence. In Pasadena, Calif., Motorist John Moore, fresh from a hair-raising ride on the cowcatcher of the speedy Santa Fe Chief, clambered down shaky but unhurt to get a ticket for ignoring the grade-crossing stop signal...
Previous education of the men has varied from the sub-grammar school grade to holders of college degrees, but Conant declared that the University "is interested in having the trade unions send men of intelligence and practical experience who are devoted to the labor movement and who expect to spend their lives in its service...