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...Altus (pop. 8,593), the seat of Jackson County, there were three days of festivities-a banquet, parades, fireworks. The big event was dedication of a new 100-ft. dam across the North Fork of the famed Red River...
...learns how relentlessly the I.T.U. will take care of him. In a strike, it will pay up to 60% of his wage. In old age, it will pay him a pension, or put him up at the cozy Printers' Home at Colorado Springs. When he dies, it will fork over $50 to $500 in death benefits...
...mine husband Pierre. Crime does not pay!" Pierre, who now is never seen (or heard) in the Alley, is a luckless "schmo" who plays the ponies at "Epstein Downs" and "Hia-Levy." He is so unlucky that "if it is raining borsch outside, Pierre will be standing with a fork. He will also missing the potato...
Pickering designed a special loudspeaker which would give a pure tone when fed an electric current pulsing at A-frequency (440 cycles a second). He sealed in a vacuum a carefully compensated tuning fork that is kept vibrating electrically. An amplifying circuit picks up the vibrations, feeds them to the loudspeaker. The result: a loud, true A. It is not a very musical sound, for it lacks softening overtones, but it is accurate to one one-hundred-thousandth of a cycle...
...Saskatchewan last week taxpayers poured into municipal offices and queued up before wickets to fork over their $5. They were getting under the wire with payment of the new head tax levied by the CCF for the first Government-controlled hospitalization plan in North America. Maximum tax: $30 a family a year. Those who failed to pay faced a 10% surtax and a $25 fine. All told, the CCF collected about $2,000,000. That, plus the $1,000,000 coming from other Government revenue, was considerably short of the $4,500,000 a year the plan is expected...