Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was no scientific measurement at last week's demonstration. Estimates of how much of the cotton the machine picked the first time over a row varied from 50% to 75%, the second time 80% to 95%. Estimates of how much the reduction in grade, caused by trash, leaves and possible stain, would lop off the grower's return ranged from $3 to $7 per bale. Frequently heard was the opinion that, even if the machine were practical on huge, flat, high-yield tracts, it would do poorly on small plots, on hilly ground, on low-yield acreage...
Three days later New York City's big milk distributors, including Borden's and Sheffield Farms, boosted the retail price of Grade B milk from 13? per qt. to 14? per qt., voluntarily raised the price paid farmers for fluid milk...
...tutorial system. The real difference in the four-year course comes at the end of the Freshman year at Harvard instead of a year later as in many colleges. By the beginning of his Sophomore year the student is expected to be ready to do work of university grade and to work under a tutor...
Chief casualty of the famed 1932 crash of Samuel InsulTs public utilities empire was the gigantic catch-all corporation called Middle West Utilities. Not to be confused with Insult's three Grade A Chicago properties (Commonwealth Edison, Peoples Gas Light & Coke and Public Service of Northern Illinois), Middle West was a holding company for a heterogeneous parcel of small and large utility companies serving 5,321 villages and towns in 36 States from Maine to Texas...
Typist Up. Tall, slim, magnetic, Will Clayton was born 56 years ago on a cotton farm near Tupelo, Miss. His father was a railroad contractor. Son Will left school after the eighth grade, studied shorthand. One of his first customers was William Jennings Bryan, who made him retype a speech because the margins were too narrow. At 15 his astonishing stenographic skill landed him a job in a St. Louis cotton firm. Soon he went to Manhattan as secretary to a cotton man named Lamar Fleming, father of his brilliant young partner. Will Clayton was a model youth. He never...