Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Embarrassment. California's grandiose Proposition 4, voted in as an amendment to the state constitution last November, had not only boosted pensions for the aged to $75 a month, but made the money delightfully easy to get. It lowered the age limit from 65 to 63 and ended the embarrassment of proving pauperism; old folks could have $3,500 in real estate, a car, furniture and jewelry, $1,500 in liquid assets, be supported in part by relatives, and still qualify...
...falls last week, some 2,000 laborers were at work on a $43 million hydroelectric project designed to serve the power-starved cities of Brazil's "forgotten corner." In charge of the job was a corps of young (average age: 30) Brazilian engineers of the Companhia Hidro Eletrica do Sao Francisco. In the ten months since work began, CHESF has put up a city for 4,500, made a start on a 2-2-mile dam, and is getting ready to carve a huge subterranean power station in solid granite...
Apprenticed to a master chimneysweeper ; at the age of twelve years, Lawrence climbed flues for seven years before he turned from the unappealing work to butchering and then operating a gas plant, occupations which he found more suitable to his inclination to improve his position financially and socially. During his seven years as a "chummy," Lawrence had many surprising adventures as he scraped his way up one flue and down another, usually in the buff. As an old man he was especially fond of telling newspaper reporters how he frightened one maiden lady by emerging from the fireplace near...
...recent paper the Owenses warn: "Vitamin E supplements are of no value if not started...before the baby is six weeks of age, since by that time irreversible retinal changes have occurred." Thus in the case of the Hoffmann twins, it apparently was several months too late for vitamin E treatment when the babies were brought to New York. At Johns Hopkins, every baby under three pounds now gets alpha tocopherol when a week old, and until it passes the 5½-pound mark...
Crime & Punishment. George Junior Republicans make their own laws in monthly meetings where citizens over 15 years of age (who pay a $1.50 annual poll tax) are allowed to vote. The kids also run their own police force and courts, impose and enforce sentences. Last week, only four were serving sentences for misdemeanors. Sample sentences: for boys, extra work with pay confiscated; for girls, more work and no makeup...