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Congenial Work. "The grade of employment to which each man or woman should be entitled should not be lower than the grade for which he or she is qualified by experience and training...
...grade of "B" for the work...
...there is no such thing as Glenn Martin's aircraft plant at Baltimore, and Bethlehem Steel may or may not be located at Sparrows Point. In short, information that is common knowledge or a matter of public record and which doesn't require even a third-grade education to digest or collate is not supposed to be repeated in print. Army's ideas of non-printable "secret" information thus included even such information as is contained in telephone directories and standard reference works. Washington correspondents hoped that the first hysteria of censorship would soon pass...
Tough-minded Walter Hershel Beech, 48, looks like an oversized Bing Crosby. He never got through the seventh grade but has an amazing knack for machinery and aerodynamics. After five years in the Army Air Corps (1917-21), he joined Lloyd Stearman and Clyde Cessna (both of whom later formed their own companies), started Wichita's Travel Air Co. to make small planes. Travel Air boomed with the air craze of the Twenties...
...public-school teachers of America. It is also a sensitive portrayal of a youngster (Douglas Croft) who honestly adores his pretty, understanding teacher (Claudette Colbert). Based on Philo Higley's and Philip Dunning's 1935 Broadway play, the picture will remind many a U.S. grownup of his grade-school days...