Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...given a great many interesting and amusing things to do and say by her author-director-husband and a fascinating and endless series of sets by Jo Mielziner on which to work, so it is doubly unfortunate that the play as such just barely fails to make the grade...
...average citizen will get substantially more food of all kinds than this year, will probably get even mere than in 1944, when he ate a record 11% above the level of prewar years. The only remaining shortages will be in pork, high-grade beef, butter, sugar and canned fish-where there will not be enough to satisfy the demand at present price and prosperity levels. And even these shortages are more apparent than real. The average consumption of meat next year will be 145-155 pounds; the record for the last 30 years was 150 pounds...
Income: "Plenty." The Soviet Government, which considers music as serious a subject as farming or factory work, has made high-grade musical composition a paying proposition. Soviet composers today are counted not only among the most respected but among the wealthiest citizens of the Soviet Union. Prokofiev, like a cautious capitalist, says of his income: "It is plenty...
TIME'S office boy in Tokyo has a most engaging hiss and helps his bosses by translating newspaper items. In Asahi he found this prizewinning, sixth-grade theme...
...actions were peas out of the same pod. For years the major studios, by controlling distribution, had been able to force exhibitors to take four or five grade B pictures for one star-studded...