Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...situation is also discouraging. The influx of ill-paid workers only partially compensates for the steady procession of wealthy citizens creeping towards suburbia. Likewise, industry is on the march--towards Route 128, where traffic is not clogged, expansion is not blocked by overpriced low grade housing, and taxation is not determined by a declining tax-base...
Zanuck has now succumbed to the familiar Hollywood malady that fills big studio bosses with envy at seeing independent producers (even makers of grade B movies) making more money than they do. One of the highest paid executives in the U.S., Darryl Zanuck was weary of handing over roughly 90% of his earnings to the tax collectors. As an independent, he can coin money in the gravy-train, 25% long-term capital-gains bracket...
Born in Rome, she was raised in Naples, quit school in the seventh grade and has not been known to read a book since. As a child, Sophia was called stecchetta (little stick) because she was so frail. But at 14 she blossomed into something approaching her present contours, entered a beauty contest, won third prize and was off to Rome. Two years later Italian Producer Carlo Ponti met her and launched her in the movies. In the next four years, she ground out 20 films, nine in 1953 alone. Mostly, they were a tribute to matter over mind...
Gestation Phase. Some of this improvement was due to the ever-rising curve of technological progress, but a good part was brought about by the missiles themselves. What they called for they generally got. Their problems were so exciting that top-grade physicists, mathematicians, chemists, even astronomers, were eager to tackle them. Many of the leaders of U.S. science have fashioned feathers and talons for the birds...
Waterproof Plywood. A cheap, plastic-surfaced, waterproof plywood called Duraply, designed for the fast-growing small-boat industry, has been developed by Crown Zellerbach Corp. and U.S. Plywood Corp. Made with a new machine that permits the use of lower-grade logs, a ⅜-in.-thick plywood panel sells at the mill for $157 per 1,000 sq. ft., which Crown Zellerbach says is 16% less than comparable plastic-coated plywoods...