Word: grading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tons-if she can hold the coal-producing Saar into which France was pushing last week. If France takes or cripples the Saar, Germany will be little better off than she was before, for the Saar's 13,500,000 tons of coal are of a much better grade than Silesia...
...because of its past pluperfect grade performance and present eccentricity, most interest centred last week on the propaganda plant of the Scottish lawyer. When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made Baron Macmillan of Aberfeldy Britain's Minister of Information, he gave the 66-year-old peer one of the toughest, one of the most delicate, of Britain's wartime jobs. It was one of the undeveloped "shadow ministries." Lord Macmillan had to organize a staff to sift and relay war news after war news had already begun to come in. He had to establish censorship after censorable news...
...High Grade Rail bonds were sold mostly by private investors. In the two days before Britain and France declared war (before stocks really boomed), the Dow-Jones average for high-grades fell off 1.81 points. Afterwards they lost little or nothing. Much the same was the performance of high-grade industrial and utility bonds...
...Second Grade Rail bonds (mostly in danger of default) found war a boon, for war traffic might hoist many a railroad back to solvency. Typical reactions: during the week, Southern Pacific's 4^3 of 1968 went from 40^ to 48^, the 4^5 of 2013 of the New York Central from" 44! to 55^; the Dow-Jones average from...
...consumers, Grade B milk delivered to the door in New York City at 14¼? instead of 13½? a quart-the highest price in eight years...