Word: grading
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...race track called the Golden Gate Turf Club has been opened by a group of California turfmen, headed by President Harry Brown of the Interocean Steamship Corp. Three years ago such a venture would have been considered quicksand suicide: there were scarcely enough high-grade thoroughbreds in the U. S. to keep two big California tracks going during the winter. But Californians have recently gone in for breeding...
This week, when Santa Anita and Golden Gate ring up the curtain on California's winter racing season, every stall will be filled. Santa Anita's purses will be larger (averaging $20,000 a day), will therefore attract more high-grade horses. But an increasing number of California turfmen complain that Santa Anita has snubbed their homebreds to make room for big-name Eastern stables. For them, Golden Gate will be a horseman's heaven...
...there were even worse dangers than falling bombs. London's compulsory education system, had practically broken down. Though the London County Council sent truant officers after parents and children alike, the average daily school attendance was only 26,000. Half of London's grade schools had been battered into rubble or commandeered for other uses. The 365 still open carried on with fewer hours of schooling, in crowded classrooms, their lessons punctuated by air-raid warnings...
...party" is a New York institution. So is Joe Madden. Born Joseph Augustin Penzo, son of an Italian baker "who was O.K. except all his life he never possessed change of a quarter," Joe grew up on Manhattan's tough West Side. When he was in the fourth grade, he hit his teacher "on the francis" with an eraser because she laughed at the way he spelled Philadelphia. When the truant officers found him, ten days later, he was sent to reform school. There he met an Irish kid named Frankie Madden, leader of the Itch Mob. Madden wised...
...manufactured by J. M. Cohen of Potomac Chemical Co., Tectyl does two things: 1) separates salt water from steel, 2) forms an oily, protective coating on the metal. It is electromagnetically attracted to steel and other electrically conducting metals, forms what are called polar films. There are four grades corresponding to film thicknesses ranging from .0002 to .0008 inch. The lightest Tectyl (thinnest film) can be used for cleaning machines of oil and dust, leaves a temporary lubricating and protective layer. The heaviest grade provides longtime protection for metals exposed to weathering...