Word: grading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning. Next came a long ride in a motor rake (a train of coal cars pulled by an electric locomotive) to a point 1,800 ft. below the sea bed. Then, on the No. 6 incline rake (a cable car), Tossy rode 6,000 ft. down a 12° grade. Finally, he walked a quarter-mile to the coal face, four miles out under the sea. It was two hours since he had left home...
Minority Prophet. "R.C." is against unions (the Hoiles papers are all open shop), majority rule ("The majority can't give my consent to anything"), progressive, income taxes ("nothing but socialism"), public education ("a house of prostitution is voluntary, grade school is not") and aid to Europe ("Let 'em go to hell"). He considers both Herbert Hoover and Earl Warren too leftwing. Two things Publisher Hoiles is in favor of: child labor for the average, child ("Give him a pick & shovel and let him get started") and the black market. One touch of liberalism in the Hoiles record: during...
...Pennsylvania Turnpike, motorists can drive 160 miles without shifting gears. From 15 miles east of Pittsburgh to the outskirts of Harrisburg, the four-lane super-highway has no intersections, grade crossings, pedestrians, stoplights, or fixed speed limit (except in its 6.7 miles of tunnels). Going through instead of over the rugged Alleghenies, it has no miles of straightaway, no grade steeper than 3%, no curve requiring a reduction in speed...
...million to develop Adirondack mines. Adirondack ores are costlier to dig, but have a richer iron content than those from Minnesota's famed Mesabi range, which still supplies the U.S. with 83% of all its iron. Steelmen, who know that Mesabi has only ten years of high-grade ore production left, think New York's old iron mining country is finally coming into...
...ring was truer than it sounded. Last week, when Cleveland College, the downtown division of Western Reserve University, announced its Basic Arts program, 100 Ohioans from Ph.D.'s to adults who had never finished the seventh grade said they wanted to sign up. The program was the invention of the college's new dean of the School of General Studies, John P. Harden, who once directed the University of Chicago's Great Books program...