Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...scene was the senior civics class of Washington's McKinley High School...
...mails (a criminal offense). They had even confiscated a ton of air mail from the American Clipper as it landed in Bermuda. Explained a spokesman of the Ministry of Economic Warfare in London: "If it was generally known that we were not examining the mails, they would prove first-class methods of smuggling contraband into Germany." British claim was that of 25,000 packages examined in three months, 17,000 did contain "contraband"; besides food and food orders, cash was being sent in Argentine pesos, Swedish kroner, other foreign currency, to bolster Germany's dwindling supply of foreign exchange...
...divisions (three or four ships each) of British submarines made their way fortnight ago. Their highly risky mission was to sneak up and pot-shoot German warboats anchored at their bases, perhaps to intercept a squadron sallying out of harbor. One division belonged to the 640-ton Swordfish class. Two of its ships were the Seahorse and Starfish. The other division belonged to the 540-ton Unity class. One of its ships was the Undine...
...Teachers College balance its budget," he cried, "by dropping some of its useless courses. . . . Teachers College, for all its high-sounding name, is not yet out of the class of normal schools, for which the Carnegie Foundation's study of Pennsylvania institutions found a new definition: A normal school is a school where subnormal students are taught by abnormal teachers...
Best to fare in reorganization are the holders of $13,715,000 in equipment trust certificates whose loans went to keep MOP in first-class operating condition. They will be paid dollar for dollar. RFC, which lent MOP $23,134,800 to keep above water, and now has an additional $8,630,000 interest claim, gets $25,994,000 in bonds, the balance in cash and preferred stock. Holders of senior bonds get niggling amounts of cash, trade in the balance of their bonds for new MOP's prime security, ten-year collateral trust notes. Some junior bonds...