Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local road project. His parents, on relief, did nothing about it; obviously it was a clerical error. When Richard received another letter, firing him from the job for failure to report, his brother Albert, 20, went to WPA headquarters, explained that Richard, aged 7, was in the second grade. WPA headquarters then cut the Malone family off relief. At length Brother Albert got himself certified as the "priority worker" of the family and was awarded the job originally assigned to Richard...
Franklin Roosevelt and his entourage have long excelled at keeping him in the news by tying up his activities to wars, droughts and other Grade A news events. An extreme example of this art was provided by Secretary Early one day when the President himself did nothing of interest at Galapagos. The official news report from the Houston announced that landing parties tried to pump the settlers about Baroness Eloise Wehrborn, the queer German woman who. wearing silk panties and a pearl-handled revolver, sought to "rule" the island several years ago until she and her retinue of young males...
Copy of a higher grade was made at James Island, where historically-minded Franklin Roosevelt, poring over Commander David Porter's Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean (1813), ordered a search (unsuccessful) for the grave of Lieut. John S. Cowan of Porter's frigate Essex, who died there in a pistol duel...
Motor knocks are caused by a part of the fuel burning too rapidly, causing pressure and temperature changes characterized by a sharp "ping." Knocking quality is measured in octane, a 100% antiknock laboratory fluid. Most regular-grade automobile gas is about 70 octane. By polymerization Phillips Pete developed 100 octane gas-useless for modern automobiles but invaluable for airplane engines, which must get maximum efficiency and sudden "burst" response on take-off or emergencies. Howard Hughes used 100 octane gas provided by Standard Oil on part of his round-the-world flight, and it is increasingly in demand in military...
...people had been killed, some 70 more badly injured-but not in fighting. The front engine of a five-car, two-engine train on the Jamaica Central Railway, packed with Kingston citizens going to the country for the Liberation Day weekend, left the rails going up a steep grade outside Balaclava. The rear engine kept going, pushed the front engine over an embankment, piled four of the five coaches up on each other in a splintered, twisted mass like a smashed accordion. The coaches lay crumpled for hours in a river bed till cranes could be got into the mountains...