Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youngsters over 200 yards of right-of-way (see p. 32). That news provided him with a jumping-off spot for a new task: the job of "personally" spending $4,880,000,000 on work relief. Same day he announced that $200,000,000 would be spent in eliminating grade crossings on main-line tracks...
That afternoon President Roosevelt announced that $200,000,000 of Federal relief money would be spent to bridge over and tunnel under grade crossings...
...ball made out of yarn wrapped around a stone. He threw stones at squirrels until his aim was deadly. By the time he was 12, he was invited to pitch for the baseball team of a nearby high school which, because he had left grammar school after the fourth grade, he was too ignorant to attend. At 16, he enlisted in the Army, got his first pair of shoes, pitched for his post team. At 18, he was hired to read gas meters for San Antonio Public Service Co., pitch for their baseball team. In an exhibition game against...
...question, "Can you beat inflation?" he replies that there is "no SURE answer." He favors good stocks, lower-grade bonds, real estate ("but be careful"). Commodities he would leave to specialists. And he thinks now is a good time to expand or start a business, particularly a small...
...process of making one into the other is the trade secret of artists, but on each book, picture, statue is the trade-mark of the maker's tools. The smoothly machined product of such novel-factories as Edna Ferber needs no watermark: consumers know it is standard brand, Grade B entertainment, an honest product sold for an honest price...