Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million union terminal program to replace the five antiquated depots with one modern station, eliminate 144 grade crossings...
Last week Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson issued an order designed to make military service a bit more attractive to skilled enlisted men. Highly qualified technicians-about 350,000 men in all-will get "proficiency" boosts of one or two pay grades ($12 to $50 a month) without stepping up in military grade...
...Establish a "proficiency pay" system (as Wilson did last week), and create two new enlisted pay grades above the present ones so that top noncoms could qualify for proficiency pay. Wilson's directive left master sergeants and chief petty officers, already in the top pay grade, with no hope for proficiency raises...
...thrombosis," Morrison explains, "was the traffic strangulation caused by five separate railroad stations, 144 grade crossings, the five-mile-long New Basin Canal with its lift bridges. Hypertension was the pressure on the downtown nerve center because of a lack of parking space and too great a concentration of people in a few buildings. The third of the municipal ailments was the slum cancer...
...Chicago she goes to St. Mary of the Lake, a parochial school, where she maintains a 97 average in the seventh grade. She arrives at the studio only 45 minutes before the show, ad-libs most of her 17 minutes of lines. With mother in charge, she hurries home, gets to bed by 9. For all her fame and Susan-sized fortune (weekly salary: $600), Susan has not become bratty. Last week her composure was put to the test: when Susan put a dish of dog food before Rusty, he lifted one leg and washed away network hopes of luring...