Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grade A Restitution. In his cheap little flat above a saloon in suburban Floral Park, L.I., "grey, 57-year-old Bertram Campbell happily posed for pictures with his happy family. Bertram Campbell was not ready to forgive everything. Said he: "It was Mr. Dewey's big clean-up campaign. All he wanted was a record of convictions...
Some Navy two-stripers, despairing of promotion to lieutenant commander, have taken matters in their own hands, they told a Pacific Fleet correspondent of the New York Times last week. Their straight-faced solution: the creation of the consoling rank, "Lieutenant Super Grade...
...qualify, officers must have been lieutenants senior grade for 24 to 29 months, "while their civilian contemporaries in the Army have become colonels and brigadier generals." They will be entitled to wear a neon star with blinker, and cap covers with a center rosette ringed with a one-half-inch band of phosphorescent material. Shirt collars and cuffs will be distinguished by a lacy fringe or fray and tinted a darker hue. (No pay increase is contemplated...
...stunt is jut-jawed Editor John W. McPherrin, whose theory is that the corner druggist is, or should be, the "neighborhood statesman." He persuaded such traveling salesmen of ideas as Eric Johnston, Maury Maverick, Vincent Sheean and William L. Shirer to write the global think pieces in sixth-grade spell-it-out fashion. Altogether, it was a strange posset for American Druggist's publisher to push over the counter. The publisher: William Randolph Hearst...
...York's busy little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia has long contended that no law-abiding beef slaughterer can make money under OPA's present ceilings for beef. Last week, "Butch" LaGuardia tried to drive home his point, with the help of a Grade-A steer. On Butch's orders, the city bought the steer and had it slaughtered, keeping track of the pound-by-pound cost. The results...