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...Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington has been a godsend to the modelers who search for authenticity. Before the Smithsonian developed its library filled with plans, statistics and helpful researchers, hobbyists had to dig for the data themselves. That often proved difficult. Between the Wright brothers' first flight and World War II, literally thousands of planes were designed and built in small shops and barns, only to plunge into obscurity nearly as fast as they were launched. Scale modelers are especially eager to resurrect these relics...
...drought-inflated crop prices are a godsend for any farmers in areas of normal rainfall or for those who have silos full of stockpiled grain from previous years. In addition, higher crop prices could help reduce the federal budget deficit, since the Government will be liable for fewer farm-support payments (last year's total subsidies: $23 billion). Some of the savings, though, will be given as aid to drought-stricken farmers...
...impoverished peasants of Chile's rural Seventh Region, the arrival in 1961 of los alemanes (the Germans) seemed at first like a godsend. The 60 or so blond, blue-eyed settlers of Colonia Dignidad (Dignity Colony) quickly set to work constructing what they called an "educational and benefactory society" on the site of an old ranch near Parral, 250 miles south of Santiago. Before long the newcomers had built a model community that offered many of the area's 20,000 residents access to employment, trade, free hospital services, an elementary school and, eventually, even a European-style restaurant...
...Brooke A. Masters '89 Copy Editors: Jennifer Griffin '91 J. Trevor McCabe '91 Editorials Editors: John J. Murphy '89 John C. Yoo '89 Features Editor: Brooke A. Masters '89 Photo Editors: Lisa Clark '89 Eugene L. Jhong '90 Sports Editors: Mark T. Brazaitis '89 Casey J. Lartigue Jr. '89 Godsend Marie B. Morris...
Brazilian farmers readily embraced such Rebel contributions as the kerosene lamp and the steel-blade plow, a godsend to a country that hadn't got past the simple hoe. The Southern missionaries whom the settlers hired as teachers also had a lasting impact. The educational tradition they began is one reason that Americana has only a 14% illiteracy rate in a country where one-fourth of the population cannot read or write...