Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until his staff tipped him off last week, Superintendent Roman Haremski of the Illinois State Child Welfare Division had thought the subject was closed. On two occasions, Miss Ruth Schmalhausen, supervisor of home management studies at Eastern Illinois Stat College in Charleston, had asked him to find her a real live baby for her home economics majors to care for; but each time, appalled at the idea, Haremski had said no. Now it turned out that Miss Schmalhausen had been able to find a baby on her own. By last week psychologists and educators all over the state were furiously...
David is actually the second "resident baby" to have lived at Eastern Illinois' $90,000 home management building. The son of an unwed mother who cannot yet support him, he arrived at the college in October, since then has been the center of attraction for twelve home economics majors. Every ten days, he gets a new "mother" who feeds him, bathes him, washes out his diapers. Between 3 and 5:30 p.m., however, all his mothers gather to play with him. Then, at 6:30 an exhausted little David...
...syndicated columnists and sounded an independent, liberal voice in the conservative woods of Maine journalism. He boosted circulation but still lost money. For his 100 employees last week, Ewing listed the troubles: "The industry-wide problem of steadily rising operating costs; the [unhappy] economic picture in northern and eastern Maine; the [lack of] local advertising...
FREIGHT rates will be cut again this year by railroads to fight heavier truck competition and to attempt to stop a steady decline in car loadings. Starting in March, Eastern roads will put through an 18% to 20% reduction on all shipments of iron and steel within the area, will probably extend the cuts to other major products before the year...
...current nation-wide cold wave dropped temperatures as low as 40 below in Minnesota and 53 below in Montana. Yesterday, the leading edge of the cold air mass was in central Kentucky and western New York and was moving steadily toward the Eastern seaboard...