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Marriage Revealed. Jesse Hilton Stuart, 32, brawny, rambunctious, hill-bred Kentucky poet and short-story writer (Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow, Head O' W-Hollow), farmer, onetime highschool principal; and Naomi Dean Norris, 31, Greenup, Ky. grade-school teacher; in Ashland...
...start. Two famed U. S. copper interests-Phelps Dodge (No. 3 U. S. copper unit) and American Metal Co., Ltd. (No. 1 U. S. investor in huge Rhodesian copper mines, formerly No. 2 metal refiner) had independently contracted to import several thousand tons of ore from the rundown, low-grade mines of Bolivia...
...compare the facts in the case: in the protected waters of Alaska and British Columbia there are mountains of high grade iron ore and limestone, two of the essentials for making iron or steel, where the material can be quarried and placed on belts that take it directly to the vessel and then the limestone and iron ore can be taken by water to any point on Puget Sound, and at all times in protected water. Compare this with the conditions in Minnesota, for example, where they have to mine the ore, then take it by rail to the docks...
Primer children sat at tiny armchairs in front, first-grade children at small desks in the centre, other pupils at bigger desks along the sides. They stood up to salute the big flag, then began their lessons While primer pupils went to play with dolls in the "play corner" and other pupils busied themselves with books, Miss Campbell announced: "First grade reading. Five tots marched to the front of the room, seated themselves on a long recitation bench. There Miss Campbell gave them a Christmas story to read in an Elson-Gray reader, sent them back to their seats with...
Next in rapid succession, came second grade reading, reading for the primer tots, third grade reading, fourth grade arithmetic, sixth grade arithmetic (long division seventh grade arithmetic. Lest classes fall behind schedule, Miss Campbell did most of the talking, prodded her pupils to hurry By day's end, Miss Campbell had taught her classes reading, writing, spelling, grammar, arithmetic, geography, history, science. Total amount of instruction for each grade: 50 minutes...