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...Lawn, one school is so crowded that it has even considered a triple shift, with first-graders coming from. 5 to 9 in the evening. Though Northbrook has managed to build one new ten-room school, it does not have enough money left over to equip or furnish it. Last year Palatine found itself in an even more embarrassing position: without enough money to pay its teachers, it had to resort to a sort of scrip that had not been used since the great Depression...
...farm economy. Since 1920, the number of U.S. farms has dropped from 6,500000 to 5,200,000, while the size of each has risen from 148 acres to an average of 215. The small farmer is dying out; the big farmer, with enough rolling, clanking machines to equip a tank platoon, has taken over his land, and farms it more efficiently In Iowa's Shelby County (587 sq. mi.) 138 farmhouses stand abandoned in the midst of fertile, machine-tilled fields...
Most likely candidate as proprietor of the pebble culture was Australopithecus prometheus, a smallish, erect-walking creature whose brain was just big enough to equip him intellectually as a maker of tools. Prometheus was plentiful in the Makapan region, but his remains had never been found with pebble tools...
Someday, perhaps, medical science will equip us all with permanent false teeth that can be installed at birth and that will last throughout our lives, remaining as shiny and sturdy as ever. When that day arrives the Colgate people will have to leave chlorophyll to the plants, and the dentist, perhaps the least enjoyed appendage of modern civilization, will at last go the way of the alchemist...
...Given two old barracks to work in, he immediately--without authority--commissioned Army carpenters to make classrooms out of them and hi-jacked a shipment of chairs headed for GHQ. Acting with consummate nerve, Seavey even turned in an order for a thousand fountain pens to equip the students he did not yet have. (The Army was not that dumb, however; it refused.) Finally, just four days after the whole thing started, he was ready to begin teaching. More than 150 students showed up and the school lasted--very successfully--for some three months. He ended up with another medal...