Word: drawing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...leaders of other Latin American nations could well take a look at tiny Uruguay last week and draw a lesson on how to make the best of a difficult coalition. After years of government mismanagement, Uruguay's peso has been freed and is now stable, the cost of living is slowing down, and the economy is so healthy that the government could pass up a U.S. loan offer of $15 million. To make them more impressive, the accomplishments are the work of what would seem to be two political cats in a sack: fiery Benito Nardone, 53, a former...
...blood, is therefore contracted from transfusions or improperly sterilized hypodermic needles. Infectious hepatitis can be spread in a number of ways. A disastrous epidemic struck Delhi, India early in 1956, when a huge sewage canal overflowed into the Jumna River, from which both Old and New Delhi draw water. Within eight weeks, 30,000 cases and 420 deaths were recorded. Sewage-contaminated water has been blamed for small outbreaks this year in Nicholas County, W. Va. and Hawkins County, Tenn. But the PHS says that most infectious hepatitis is transmitted by person-to-person contact, e.g., by small children...
...wires has been even more hazardous. Linemen, working on charged wires while their bodies are grounded by contact with poles or towers, have had to use "hotsticks" and other clumsy but insulated tools to protect them from the current. There was always the danger that a careless motion might draw a deadly charge. A simple job like changing an insulator could take five man-hours when done in this...
Montgomery Ward then began an expansion program that used up Avery's hoard. Last August, Avery could draw a measure of quiet satisfaction from the fact that Ward's new free-spending management, faced with six-month earnings of $5,000,000 v. $10 million the first half of 1959, had to halve Ward's quarterly dividend. Last week, just a few days be- fore his 87th birthday, Sewell Avery died of a cerebral hemorrhage...
...take less than a living wage ($96 a month) in order to get a steady twelve-month contract and plenty of experience. The low pay is partially compensated for by the fact that, after 15 years, all singers in the government-run houses receive handsome pensions that they can draw on anywhere in the world...