Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...182No let-up in British austerity. Almost every dollar will go for food (to maintain minimum rations) or raw materials (to get factories going). Last week clothes-short Britons heard that all their silks and high-grade woolens would be reserved for export...
Though effective in spots, the play of the Stahlmen was generally of the upper bracket high school variety; fast breaks, sharp passes, and accurate shooting were entirely absent. The only elements even resembling Grade A basketball were the work of Lew Desci as pivot man and John Gantt's smooth one hand push shooting from the corners...
Donaldson stresses many advantages offered to students in the course. A monetary allowance of $20 monthly, equal to standard garrison subsistence pay will be paid during the months of the course session. While at camp the students will receive the pay of the seventh enlisted grade, and will be furnished a travel allowance to get there...
Unfortunately the Navy didn't have time to send many of these men through midshipmen's schools or even to indoctrinate them, at first. So these junior executives, bond salesmen, tie clerks and miscellaneous experts in their early 30s were commissioned as lieutenants junior grade or even full lieutenants. They donned uniforms, and it was hoped that some day they would see fit and be able to carry out the duties of an officer in the U.S. Navy. Many filled the bill; some, to the eventual discredit of the Navy, never...
monthly consumption rate of 1,500,000 bags. Then a worried U.S. began negotiat ing with coffee producers. With a price increase in the offing, U.S. purchasers were able to buy only 315,000 bags in October, mostly low-grade coffee. By last week the U.S. had only 5,000,000 bags of green coffee beans on hand. But it was so poorly distributed that some form of rationing may yet have to be resumed, unless the subsidy brings in a flood of coffee. There seemed small chance of this...