Word: graded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stories about draft discrimination kept piling up. Several athletes who looked like grade A 4-Fs had been hurriedly reclassified and inducted-after draft officials spotted the P.A. (for Professional Athlete) on their papers. Examining doctors had rejected Hugh Poland of the Braves until an Army officer cracked: "If you can play ball, you can serve in the Army." The Phillies' Ron Northey had been turned down and then called up three days later. The Cardinals' Danny Litwhiler had been drafted despite a medical notation that "this registrant . . . does not meet the minimum requirements for military training...
...ashamed to go home the day he flunked in fifth-grade Tolerance, and again on the day his model crashed into the airport during an eighth-grade flight exam. But it was not until he took his post-Common Learnings aptitude test that he really became troubled: the test unmistakably marked machine-minded Peter as a potential teacher of economics...
...some features of this vision are already in practice. Classification tests, mechanical aids, and language-teaching methods have been highly developed by the Army & Navy. First-grade-through-college aviation training has been adopted by some 15 states. Tolerance classes are routine in Springfield, Mass. Several school boards have established summer camps for individual schools. Especially in large cities, vocational high schools and work-experience programs are no longer a novelty. The fast-as-you-can-go college course is a going experiment at the University of Chicago...
...than troop movements When the monthly traffic over the western railroads shoots from the present 148,000 cars to 173,000, each of the seven railroads that snake their way through the Rocky Mountains will be loaded to capacity. A hot box, or a derailment on a single track grade up from the Great Plains, will call for fast rerouting of freight flowing through the rail-terminal bottlenecks at Chicago, St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans...
...Swedes explained to OPA that pulp which sold at $40 a ton delivered to a U.S. port in 1939 should now be priced at $80 because production and shipping costs have gone up. U.S. ceiling price for a like grade of pulp...