Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carriers' financial troubles by a series of conferences with organized Labor. Into the New York, New Haven & Hartford's board room marched representatives of 21 railroad unions to ask for: 1) a six-hour day; 2) a billion-dollar U. S. bond issue to eliminate grade crossings; 3) Federal laws for accident indemnity, retirement insurance...
...Eleven of the 1930 lynchees were illiterate while only one had reached the fifth grade in school. Many of them were "defective half-wits...
Cinemactress Dressier's producers have not let her starve, but they have given her major roles which often seem to be bit parts arduously expanded. In Min & Bill, she was proprietress of a low-grade boarding house. Wallace Beery was her star boarder. Largely slapstick comedy, the picture included a six-minute fight between Dressier and Beery in which Cinemactress Dressier threw things, among them a pottie, at Cinemactor Beery. Cinemactress Dressier enjoyed making the fight scenes. When she and Beery were too tired to go on, she rested in a portable bungalow dressing room which...
Chicago traders attributed this rise in wheat prices, with other grains tagging along, entirely to the Soviet crop failure. Not only was the Russian production short but grade was inferior. Russia had contracted to supply many a European market with wheat which did not exist. While Soviet officials scrambled to buy back their contracts, France, Germany, Italy turned to the U. S. and Canada for their supply. The Australian and Argentine crops would not come in until January. Meanwhile Europe was reported to have a scant four weeks supply (65,000,000 bu.) of wheat on hand fit for milling...
Savage Arms Corp., which has expanded into such by-products as washing machines, refrigerators, has also expanded in its principal business. Its most notable acquisition came last year with the purchase of A. H. Fox Gun Co. of Philadelphia, famed for high-grade shotguns. Savage also holds U. S. rights to the Lewis Machine Gun and the patents for the Driggs-Schroeder gun, used in the Army and Navy. This year the company has lost money, fortnight ago it passed its dividend...