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...some clear day in the distant fu ture, U.S. highways may be filled with si lent, exhaustless electric cars. For the time being, however, such an auto remains as elusive as unpolluted air. Those venerable vehicles of the early 1900s, the Baker and Detroit Electrics of pre-World War I days required many hours of battery recharging for every hour on the road. To this day, the "refueling" problem is one of the major obstacles holding up production of a commercially competitive electric...
...students' resentment over the court orders parallels that felt in the early 1900s by labor leaders, who were repeatedly stymied by management's use of the injunction to halt strikes. In 1932, Congress finally came to labor's aid with the Norris-LaGuardia Act, which prohibited federal courts from issuing an injunction to stop peaceful, nondisruptive strikes...
...grass-tufted upcountry savannas of southern Guyana yield profits only to the rawest, roughest kind of rancher, but Ben Hart was that sort of man. Immigrating from South Dakota in the early 1900s, he married a half-breed of Amerindian-Scotch parentage and fathered six boys as tough as he. They tended their herds, sleeping in tree platforms at night to fend off attacks by pumas, and they carried water in buckets for the shade trees they planted. Before Hart died in 1961, they put together a spread of 185,000 leased acres, with buildings and ranch houses worth...
Died. Jess Willard, 86, ex-heavyweight champ and boxing's "Great White Hope" in the early 1900s (see SPORT...
...GREAT WHITE HOPE, by Howard Sackler, attempts to re-create the prizefight world of the 1900s, using the dramaturgy of the 1930s, and drawing dubious parallels with events of the 1960s. James Earl Jones exudes vitality as the first Negro heavyweight champion...