Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Patent Office is a bureau of the Department of Commerce. It employs about 600 clerks in addition to 700 examiners who must hold engineering degrees to be permitted to take the entrance examination, law degrees to be promoted after reaching a certain grade. The bureau has taken in $8,000,000 more than it has spent, pays the largest printing bill of any Government bureau, trains patent lawyers, stays constantly behind in its work, resists the onslaught of its critics, continues to grant more & more patents. Seven hundred thousand patents are now in force...
...Tasting. The grading of canned peas has long been a matter of human taste. Dr. Zoltan Imre Kertesz of the New York State division of food chemistry reported that the proportion of peas soluble in alcohol was a much better index of grade, that many a canner was ready to replace human tasters with alcoholic robots...
...week at Syracuse, N. Y. for evading $92,103.34 in income taxes on $481,637.35 made in 1929-31 from "various unlawful business enterprises and rackets," he volunteered to reporters a partial biography. He is 33, was born in Manhattan's Yorkville, quit grammar school after the sixth grade, became a printer and pressman, then a roofer, a trade he abandoned when he was 17. Here the onetime master of The Bronx beerage, reputed boss of the policy game racket and the last of the great Prohibition Era gangsters left alive or at liberty, stopped, grinned. "You fellows will...
...Merwin and Lou Liggett were boys together on the streets of Detroit. Then their ways parted for 25 years; when they met again they had both made the grade. Liggett's career has enough forge-ahead stuff for three Horatio Alger stories. His Scottish-Dutch ancestry gave him a big body, unbounded assurance, tireless ambition. By the time he was 21 he had a house, a wife, a ponycart and $7,000 in the bank. His first independent venture, with a bankrupt store, was typical. Overnight he painted long rows of red footsteps leading to his shop, was arrested...
Died. "Fireman Jim Flynn" (Andrew Chiariglone), 55, heavyweight, only boxer ever to knock out Jack Dempsey; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. Twice defeated by Negro Jack Johnson, Flynn became a trial horse for heavyweights of the ''White Hope" period, was on the down grade when he managed to floor Dempsey in one round in 1917. Next year Dempsey, on his way to championship, knocked out Flynn in one round...