Word: helpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Retired in Manhattan, millionaire ex-Cinemactress Greta Garbo, 51, got word that she has inherited $772 from an uncle, a Swedish farmer who doted upon her when she was a teen-ager embarking on a career as a barber's helper in Stockholm...
...acre Alleman farm north of Des Moines, a guide explained that young (25) Richard Alleman would need one helper for his harvest. "One!" shouted a Soviet official. "By us a hundred!" Busily they searched around for field hands and superior officials. A guide explained: "Two things still trouble them: Where are all the other workers, and who specifically tells each farmer what to plant?" In the Soviet Union, after 38 years of Communism, production of some major foods (meat, butter, milk) has fallen below czarist levels; in Iowa, during the same period, production has increased 60%. One visiting Russian last...
...more acres, make more money, and thus buy still more land. Ten years ago Willard Wedberg of Fremont Neb. had two hired hands to help work 320 acres of corn land! Last year, with bigger and better cultivators and tractors he farmed 520 acres with only one part-time helper...
Despite the double defeat, Proxy Williams gave each Washington St. helper a free, autographed back issue of his magazine...
...Soviet atomic explosion and the subsequent Washington decision to press for an H-bomb, calculations based on the theories of Teller and others were set up on a machine called ENIAC. But there was fear that this electric brain would be too slow. Stan Ulam, a mathematician, with one helper, "undertook to execute the same job by straightforward hand computation. The next few months saw an amazing competition between the tortoise and the (electronic) hare." Ulam's "results were available even before the lengthy instructions to the machines had been completed . . . In a real emergency the mathematician still wins...