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When tax money is used to transport a child to a denominational school, it might be remembered: 1) the people who subscribe to that denomination also pay taxes; 2) to pay for transportation is not to pay for religion; it is not even to pay for education. . . . The wall between church and state remains -but it is not moved so far over as to crush a child...
Outside the House of Commons another big blizzard snarled transport and set back recovery from The Crisis. But inside the chill Victorian-Gothic chamber, tempers were short and hot. The Mother of Parliaments, majestic but not stuffy, had one of her stormiest, most boisterous weeks in recent history. It went along like this...
...time his rocket flasks had boosted the overloaded transport-with all the Kee Bird's crew-into the air, another Superfort was in trouble, 2,000 miles away. A last message placed it over Alaska's famed Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. Then it vanished, with a crew...
...Harold L. George now heads Peruvian International Airways at Lima at about $50,000 a year; strategic bombing expert Lieut. General Barney McK. Giles is vice president in charge of engineering for Air Associates Inc.; former War Shipping Administrator Vice Admiral Emory S. Land is president of the Air Transport Association...
...Britain's downfall (the islands were in the middle of a high-pressure area that extended from central Russia to northern Iceland).* It lashed coal ships to their piers and snow-blocked 75,000 coal-laden railroad cars. Britons shivered in unheated trams, trains and subways (most transport was drastically cut), squinted under nickering candlelight in unheated offices (there was a run on aspirin, a coal-tar derivative, for eyestrain headaches), came home to huddle around the kitchen stove and to hope that a threatened cut in gas would not add to their miseries. London's Central Electricity...