Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curtin, his white-haired chief counsel, a day and a half to sum up the defense and move unsuccessfully for a dismissal of the charges. Lawyer Curtin talked till his voice cracked. He was voluble but ungrammatically inarticulate. He harangued the Governor as if he were a low-grade juror. Samples of the Curtin argument...
...called for only $10,000,000 of its subscribed $100,000,000. Even on that sum Wall Street thinks it must have rolled up a fat profit. A boiling bond- market last week brought the Dow-Jones averages 24% above their June lows. Nu merous second-and third-grade issues have registered gains that shame the performances of shares on the Stock Exchange...
...dressed" with meaty chunks of good steel that concealed a load of bed steads, old fenders, tin cans, other metals and alloys which would ruin a batch of steel. One dealer foisted off a shipment of pipes filled with sand to increase the weight. All scrap is now graded, and priced accordingly. Highest grade is railroad car axles, standard grade is heavy melting steel scrap No. 1, now worth $9.00 a ton at Pittsburgh...
...year with Thomas Edison, then formed his own company, got a contract in 1887 to install an electric railway in Richmond, Va. Said he later: "I believed in myself and staked a fortune. All hands worked with a vengeance. . . . The morning we tried the first trolley up the steepest grade, it crept up the 10% slope slowly, steadily, wobbling here & there. After an eternity it reached the crest and the men cheered. Our company went into a receivership in the end but. . . contracts poured in from all over the world." In New Orleans, at a mass meeting demanding electric instead...
...library tables of most genteel U. S. homes ten years ago lay at least one magazine of high-grade fiction & belles lettres, and one heavy review. The fiction-belles lettres ranks, which once included Everybody's, Munsey's, Century, Mc-Clure's, Scribner's, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, have been heavily decimated. All but the last three have died or been transformed unrecognizably...