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...achievements have been notable. Items: 1) the market value of listed stocks has risen from $31 billion to more than $52 billion; 2) the market value of listed bonds has soared from $58 billion to $102 billion. The biggest advance among bonds has been scored by the second-grade rails, thus adding substantially to the earnings of those banks which stubbornly clung to them when prices were lower...
...they tell. Over Company 4 the fellas are all agog over the celebrity in their midst--a full-fledged cinema hero, no less. The object of the adulation, particularly from such cowpuncher worshippers as Pryor, Price and Rogers, is J. B. Morris, who in pre- war days was that grade-B hero, Gene Buck, the singing cowboy...
...steelmaking, varied grades of ore are used. Steep Rock's high-grade ore (it has a low silica and high iron content) is ideal for mixing with lower-grade U.S. ores. It would be impractical to use Steep Rock ore exclusively in steelmaking. Consequently Canada will ship much of Steep Rock's production to the U.S. and continue to import lower-grade U.S. ores...
...verbal tiff between Coulouris and Garfield, injects a little social consciousness into the story, with good effect. Except for Henreid and a young woman whose name is new and easily forgotten, "Between Two Worlds" is well acted and well directed; it's just too long and knocks itself from grade A by artificial loftiness...
Navy records have been greatly facilitated the constant screenings and grade reports of the V-12 programs here require fast action, and the machines are able to give it. Civilian uses range from grading placement tests to figuring out the ratio of students to the various preparatory schools. In addition, all the telltale information about each man's College career is recorded by code punches on two basic cards...