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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first sustained drop in U.S. cigarette consumption in 20 years, off 5.5% in the second quarter from 1952. Though 1953's total may still be higher than last year's, the rate of increase has slowed from 5% a year to a mere 1% (see chart). Tobacco stocks, by the latest count, totaled 1.9 billion Ibs., up 7% from a year...
Wellesley girls, a usually easy going group given more to worry over sign outs than studies last year started keeping exceptionally close track of exactly how they spent their time. Each day for six weeks they carefully went up to a little chart and to tailed up how many hours they spent studying, sleeping, and attending classes. They noted how much time they had spent working at jobs, how much time they had spent on exercise. Then they handed in the little charts, and the Ford Foundation for the Advancement of Education picked up the sheets and started tabulating...
...yellow filter, and the moon merely an object which it is hard to photograph without a tripod: he approaches the highest peaks through a telephoto lens, scans new horizons through his range finder-and if he ever came across the Blue Bird, he would whip out his color chart...
...students were allowed to quit school at 14 (the present age: 17). But the schools grew nevertheless, and in growing were moved to both experiment and reform. Corporal punishment was condemned in 1850-an era when most U.S. schoolmasters, as a matter of course, still whipped by the chart (one lash for every foot above three climbed up a tree, two lashes for blotting a copybook). New York instituted night schools in 1847, children's classes in hygiene and sanitation in 1885, in sewing, cooking and manual training in 1887, lectures for workingmen...
...zinc at a record rate (an estimated 1,100,000 tons this year) and lead consumption is only a shade below the 1950 peak of 1,200,000 tons. But U.S. mines have not benefited; low-priced imports, up sharply in the last few years, exceed U.S. production (see chart...