Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lacking one important asset of a top-grade outfielder-speed-Ott made up for this deficit by learning to get the jump on a fly ball the split-second it leaves the bat. He is the master of three outfielding arts: 1) on a long fly ball over his head, he takes one look, turns his back and digs for the spot where the ball will drop; 2) he has patiently acquired the knack of picking caroms off the tricky right-field wall at the Polo Grounds; 3) his buggy-whip arm has enabled him to set a league record...
They had to toil up a cleft with an So per cent grade near the top. Somehow, they made it. Somehow, tanks mounting both guns and flamethrowers were bulled up the slopes in support...
...Production Board announced that aluminum would be available immediately, priority free, for civilian goods. On top of this announce ment the Surplus Property Board declared that it will scrap all unsalable military aircraft in the U.S. from which can be produced an estimated one billion lbs. of second-grade aluminum ingots. Best Washington sources estimate that, as a result of these two orders, over 100 million lbs. of aluminum will be available for third quarter civilian production...
...used in place of other materials, in such articles as refrigerators, retooling, new designs, retrain ing of workers, etc., will be necessary which will take time. Also, virgin aluminum is still two to three times as costly as steel. This difficulty may not be serious if second-grade aluminum from scrap -good enough for many common articles -is available at a low price...
Harvard will graduate the largest group of officers as it presents degrees to 86 army candidates and to 42 from the Navy. These candidates will, upon graduation, become first lieutenants in the Army, or naval lieutenants, junior grade...