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During last week's dust storm, which lasted four days (and in the heart of the drought district ran on for twelve consecutive days), police closed highways to prevent accidents. Airplanes were grounded. Schools and businesses were closed. Health officers advised every one to stay at home. Three children...
(Ex-No. 1: Bert Acosta, onetime [1923-25] chief test pilot for Curtiss-Wright, famed as "the bad boy of aviation." Frequently in official bad graces because of intoxication and stunting, Acosta was finally grounded in 1929. Since then he has been mostly jobless. Fellow pilots still rate him top...
Next day Pacific Gas & Electric Co. of California registered the biggest single issue since the Securities Act was passed -$45,000,000 of 4% bonds to retire $44,636,000 in securities due in 1952. P. G. & E. was in a great hurry to get its registration to Washington. Carrying...
It would be fairer to judge Cuba's propensity for strikes and revolutions on an economic rather than racial basis. Attempts to find the cause in Latin temperament are interesting speculation but do not present the whole picture. Cuba's constant dissatisfaction with government is firmly grounded in its extensive...
Proud of their tractors and power plants, Russians are even more proud of their schools. Their claims are that illiteracy has all but vanished; that there is education for everyone, from three-year-olds up to the oldest peasants; that Soviet educators have pioneered in developing group project work; that...