Word: drains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Erickson began working on the idea seven years ago when they noticed that certain areas of Michigan produced a high yield of crops from loose, sandy soil. The soil was productive, they realized, because an underlying layer of clay was trap ping rain water instead of allowing it to drain away, thus keeping the surface soil moist. "We decided to mimic these soils," says Erickson...
...wastes from a number of mills and plants which drain directly into the river...
...addition, the Peace Corps has 5,400 teachers overseas, the federal Job Corps employs 1,720 teachers, and the fulltime Head Start program is expected to need 12,000 teachers. Another drain is the draft. Texas education officials contend that their teacher shortage just matches the number hired by federal programs. Indianapolis shifted 49 faculty members into anti-poverty jobs-and faced 46 vacancies when school opened. John Desmond, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, argues that "it is asinine to assign teachers to special programs while regular classrooms are unfilled...
Aware that strikes drain away readers who never return, Conniff doubts that the circulation of his paper will get close to the combined total of the three merged dailies. He projects a 650,000 circulation for the daily paper, 750,000 for the Sunday. And he hopes that the figures will rise as the World Journal...
JAPANESE girls at Natural Bridge, Germans at the pool sides of a hundred Holiday Inns, an Italian family at Radio City Music Hall, British motorists at Old Faithful-these are the newest innocents abroad. Since 1961, when Congress, hoping to reduce the balance-of-payments drain, set up the U.S. Travel Service as the nation's first official tourist bureau, the number of foreign visitors to America has more than doubled. This year 1,200,000 of them (excluding border crossers from Canada and Mexico) are busily proving for themselves the truth of Lord Bryce's 19th century...