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...education for youngsters should be no problem to sell. One second-grade teacher tried an experiment, found her pupils eager to learn all there was to know. With no prompting, the seven-year-olds harried her with questions. What are the different parts of an airplane? How can a pilot see at night? What does the propeller do? How do radio and weather men help the pilot? Who invented the first airplane? The teacher collected all the aviation books in the neighborhood and worked out the answers with the help of her class. A scrapbook was made up to show...
...minutes they were shown why a plane flies, how an airport tower operates, how weather and communication services are conducted. The occasion was the first of a series of "institutes" to prepare teachers for a state-wide program of aviation instruction in all public schools, from first grade through college...
Highpoint meat, butter, canned fruit and other hard-to-get items were scratched from P.O.W. menus. Substitutes: beef hearts, liver, low-grade cuts for stew (twice a week), margarine (once a day), stewed fruit, more spaghetti, more bread to maintain a calorie count equal to the standard U.S. Army garrison ration...
Molly and Me (Grade Fields, Monty .Woolley; TIME, April...
Holman Cone is also an optimist this week, as much as it goes against his true spirit. That Disbursing grade ruined his sorrowful outlook on life for three full days; but he soon recovered and from beneath his overcoat and muffler he moans that he "broke down" his health to achieve this grade. He also shudders when he remembers that night he was forced to evacuate his quarters without benefit of slippers...