Word: help
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Tapped Off. To help solve its water problem, the Air Force has signed up Ionics, Inc., a twelve-year-old Cambridge, Mass, company staffed largely by professorial veterans of M.I.T. and Harvard. Less than two years ago, Ionics unveiled the nation's first municipal water-desalting plant at Coalinga, Calif.; since last June, Ionics has been transforming 250,000 gallons a day of unpotable water into good water for the town of Oxnard. Calif, at a cost of 20? per thousand gallons-half the amount that most U.S. cities pay for their water. About 50 more company plants...
...high-talking patriots, revolver in holster and glass in hand, while slum poverty stares out, and children grow tuberculous and die, and pregnant women are maddened with fear and worry, and it is the very Free-State-hating harridans who know how to hold firm and are able to help...
...used a human model. Instead, each artist studied existing statues or paintings, and when he had the image firmly in mind, he would produce a work of his own. Though the art of Thailand has in a sense been a perpetual act of copying, the finest artists could not help leaving their personal stamp...
...represent the real situation in unemployment and is subject to error. Samplers themselves concede that the range of their potential error is about 120,000 people. One trouble is that when the husband is laid off, the wife and often a son or daughter start searching for work to help out. Result: where only one has actually lost his job, three are registered as unemployed. Nonetheless, the statistics do show the national trend-and the trend is not encouraging...
...thing bothers the reader. Early in the book, the author represents her virile hero as musing in these words about whether to attend a formal dinner: "Who am I to lower the tone of an haut monde evening with my simple little tweed?" Does Tito really need such help...