Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bankers on distinctly smalltime money matters. Releasing his 1936 report, Mr. Crowley lit into the members of FDIC for dabbling in speculative bonds. Warned the man who has underwritten 14,000 banks: "Low earnings are making some banks reach out and deal in more or less low-grade bonds. They are in and out of the bond market, as you or I would be in or out if we were dealing in the stockmarket...
...President sent a report of his National Resources Committee with a message urging adoption of its six-year, $5,000,000.000 program of coordinated public works. The Committee specified 10,000 projects-street, highway, irrigation, drainage, flood control, building & equipment, slum clearance, sewage, recreation, forestry, game protection, pest control, grade crossing elimination, navigation aid-some to be undertaken at once, some to be investigated and held in, reserve for the Next Depression. As a further Flood Relief measure the President proclaimed an emergency under the tariff laws permitting the importation duty free of relief supplies sent...
...helps to improve the technique of writing under fire. Furthermore, when all papers are returned, the onus of careful correcting rests more heavily on the assistants. For, when no examinations are given back, only the very bad or very serious-minded undergraduate ever lets loose a squawk about his grade...
Naturally enough, a good many of those who answered the Student Council tutoring school questionnaire, remarked that they didn't think the benefits of tutoring quite worth the price. Such skeptics will feel better on learning that the tutors themselves believe in them as satisfactory methods of raising that grade, even if they do get the service at cost. When the patent medicine man drinks his own poison, that's news...
...virtually a 1929 production basis by the tin cartel (TIME, Jan. 18). Last week, with export copper selling as high as 12.75? per lb., the international copper cartel called off production quotas to keep the price of the red metal from soaring higher and to discourage reopening of low-grade mines...