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...this, and shrewd management, boomed parent Northern Pump's profits from their 1937-39 average of $22,000 to $21,179,000 in 1942-before renegotiation and taxes, of course. Hawley's salary kept pace with the rise, climbing from...
Learn at Home. Calvert home courses concede nothing to slowpokes. In two to four hours a day, 160 lessons a year, parents can put children through eight elementary grades in six years. Parents get their teacher-training from Calvert manuals, which are almost parent-proof. Though some find pedagogy tough going, most of their pupils do very well. Mothers with kindergarten children get instructions on how to teach, play games, punish, tell stories, test intelligence, deal with lefthandedness, lying, disobedience, sex problems, how to develop morals, neatness, courtesy, concentration, imagination. Sample instruction: "Obedience ... is the first requisite for ... proper instruction...
That young children are uncivilized and not always noble savages, every parent knows. Children love to wreak imaginary destruction. Rarely enough to be notable, the destruction is sometimes actual. A tragic case, reported in New York City last week...
People who practice "planned parent hood" believe that babies should be born at two-year intervals. This cherished tenet is wrong - if Johns Hopkins' Dr. Nichol son Joseph Eastman is right. Last week he asserted (in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology) that the two-year interval was deduced from obsolete statistics...
...income for the parent company, Mr. Behn reported, was $1,284,184 last year v. a deficit of $1,021,537 in 1942; on a consolidated basis it was $5,528,939 - a cool two and a half times the previous year, and the highest since booming, peaceful 1937. Yet the consolidated figures not only excluded I. T. & T.'s European manufacturing subsidiaries (representing 16.6% of its total investments) and its Spanish telephone properties (22.5%), but also its two-thirds share in the net income of American Cable & Radio Corp., which earned...