Word: grades
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gave ground on his pension cuts (see p. 13). To avoid a long Senate wrangle, he dropped his plan to ask Congress for authority to make special tariff treaties at the London Conference. To put down resentful little rebellions in his own party, he released a flood of Grade B patronage. At his command the Senate sat for twelve-hour stretches. Oldsters could recall nothing to match the Roosevelt drive for adjournment. But at the last moment the President made a tactical error which cost him his whole week's work. Submitted to Congress at 8 o'clock...
...great a cost per mile that financial wags of the period said that its rails were nickel plated. In 1916, the Nickel Plate (with 523 mi. of track connecting Buffalo with Chicago) was not in the forefront of railroads. It was a second-grade property, far from profitable. The New York Central was glad to sell its majority interest...
...practically no cost the University could grade the field behind the Business School and extend the privileges of the enlarged space to members of the College. Such a parking lot would be more convenient for residents of the Houses than many garages and would reduce expenses on cars that do not need the protection of a closed garage Parking drives are an intolerable nuisance to everyone except the College authorities...
...probably put the Public Debt to an all-time high.* The proceeds were to be lent to states, counties and municipalities on a 30-to-70 basis. It was estimated that each billion dollars would put 1,000,000 men to work constructing bridges, laying roads, clearing slums, eliminating grade crossings, building war ships. Private industry was to get no cash from the Government, on the ground that the Treasury, unable to supply all-comers, should avoid discrimination by supplying none...
...busy in his Manhattan factory. Last February he opened a second Manhattan showroom in the St. Moritz Hotel. Next fortnight he will open a $50,000 display at the Traymore in Atlantic City. Mont bars run all the way from $80 to $8,000. His best customers: top grade speakeasies, underworld tycoons...