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...Lusty Infant. Such high-flying merchandising methods are commonplace in Dallas' fast-growing fashion trade. The industry got its big start in the mid-1930s, when the wave of U.S. unionization sent many a small garmentmaker seeking refuge in open-shop Dallas; soon it had an $18-million-a-year volume. It concentrated on sport clothes and other casual wear in big demand in mild-weathered outdoor-loving Texas. With World War II, the Dallas garment industry hit the big time; last year it provided jobs for 10,000 and produced a sales volume of $60 million...
Within half an hour all but 15 of the little girls and infant Luigi had been rescued, but all that day & night the canal was dragged for bodies while weeping parents watched. Then people began to ask why the bridge had collapsed. Only last December, at Don Moses Lionello's request, the bridge had been repaired. Some turned upon white-haired Gioacchino Bozzato who had built the bridge five years before. Builder Bozzato had no explanation. Among the missing children were his daughters, 13-year-old Dirce and one-year-old Albina, and an eleven-year-old niece Rosa...
...same time that high taxes and high prices are making it harder to save a nest egg for old age. Since the turn of the century, 18 years have been added to the average life expectancy at birth, which is now 65.5 years for the white male infant, 71 for the female; the average man (white) now 65 can expect to live to 77.4, the average woman to 79.4. The number of people in the U.S. past 65 years old has increased from 3,000,000 in 1900 to 11,500,000 today. Though total U.S. savings are near their...
...heating pad and a hot-water bottle she had kept the temperature in the carriage at 96°-a few degrees warmer than the temperature of an incubator. She had boiled chemicals on an electric plate to provide extra oxygen in the room. She had fed the tiny infant correct formulas from well-sterilized bottles. At the hospital astounded physicians found that the baby had gained six ounces...
Since its inception in 1946, the Social Relations Department has acquired more stereotypes than any other infant of comparable age. Its detractors call it everything from an esoteric clique to a white-shoe meeting place, and its concentrators do indeed range to these extremes...