Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everything she could to keep them. She smeared on the lipstick with a will, and soon discovered mascara. "The neighbors called me cheap," she says, "but I knew I really wasn't." Her stutter began to disappear. She wrote verse. She skipped the last half of the eighth grade. "I looked back on the whole mess around that time," Marilyn recalls. "And something came up inside me and I said to myself. 'Somebody's got to come out of this whole...
...elements. Hard, heat-resistant (melting point: 1,845° C.), almost corrosion-proof, zirconium cost $315 a Ib. as late as 1945, was a laboratory curiosity beyond the purse of U.S. industry. In the postwar years, National Lead Co., Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. and others learned to produce commercial-grade zirconium as a hardening material for steel (1,500,000 Ibs. at $10 a Ib. was shipped in 1955). But in 1948, with the start of the atomic power plant program, the AEC found it needed almost pure zirconium. Since it does not become radioactive, it is an ideal construction...
Beyond atomics, the three companies see a new market opening up for low-priced zirconium. Eventually, they hope to produce a slightly lower-grade zirconium for as little as $3.50 a Ib., well within the pocketbooks of dozens of industries from electronics (where it is used to absorb oxygen in vacuum tubes) to machine tools. Estimates are that the U.S. chemical industry alone can use big quantities to cut its losses of $500 million annually from corrosion of pipes, valves and tanks...
...grant for "needy students who do not quite make scholarship grade" was one of three bequests contributed by the Robert and Arnold Hoffman Foundation, Inc., of Boston...
Second Choice. In Phoenix, Ariz. last May, 491 housewives were given a selection of identical cuts of lean, bright, red, nonaged beef in good and commercial grades and of choice beef-marbled, dark red and well-aged. Without price tags or grade stamps to guide them, more than two-thirds picked the poorer beef. Though such tests cause cowmen to snort contemptuously about women shoppers and "supermarket cattle," they have also caused them to worry. If women shoppers prefer the poorer grades that look fresher and leaner, then cattlemen will breed lean meat...