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...welded product is strongest at its welds. Reason: as the high-grade steel in the melting electrode is deposited, it is protected-as the mill-rolled steel which is being welded was not protected-from contamination by the air's oxygen and nitrogen. These are excluded by another gas formed by the electrode's coating (paper pulp and sodium silicate), which shields the melting metal from...
Manhattan gallerygoers, long familiar with Critic Cortissoz' crisply expressed enthusiasms and prejudices, were not surprised to find few 20th-century paintings in his hand-picked anthology. In the exclusive company of Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Renoir, only twelve U.S. artists (all dead) made the grade...
...nation of sixth-grade reading skill. It requires at least seventh-grade reading skill to read newspapers other than the tabloids. ... A recent report of the American Association for Adult Education states that there are 16,000,000 illiterates in the United States-they cannot read beyond the fourth-grade level. . . . Reading failure is a national problem...
...movie elite commands large salaries because of the scarcity of Grade-A movie talent and management. But they remain employes, not people of property, and they work for salaries. One or two of the wealthiest "may be worth five million dollars," but that is small change beside the established U.S. fortunes...
...also be good spies. The Department also made notable use of movie companies: one filmed Robinson Crusoe (never released) on a strategic island off South America; another made a huge documentary (never released) of Poland, in 1938. Artists were useful, too, from a great Wagnerian soprano down to second-grade cabaret girls. And servant girls-between 1933 and 1939 some 20,000 of them went to Holland and 14,000 to England-and the famous Nazi "tourists." All over the world the Department placed its agents in radio stations; in the more backward countries, Germans installed and operated transmitters...