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...even so, the community is worse off than ever. Unemployment still runs close to 30% ; many residents are out of work because none of the chain stores destroyed last year have been rebuilt; insurance rates for some Watts businesses have quintupled. As evidence of the risk, Sol Goldman, one merchant who did rebuild his burned-out clothing store, saw it ransacked again last week. With 1,000 newcomers a week arriving in Los Angeles, Mayor Yorty complained, "The city just doesn't have the financial resources to provide the number of jobs necessary. This must be done...
...dawn of science and the rise of the merchant middle class changed the very meaning of patience. Observing, recording, experimenting-patiently piling their slow-baked bricks of knowledge into steps leading upward toward freedom and control of nature-the pioneers of science began to give patience a positive ring, a means to hope within the here and now. At the same time, the capitalists, gradually replacing the aristocracy at the top of society, were demonstrating what the patient, longview investment and reinvestment of money could do to liberate men from the conditions they were born to. Patience was no longer...
...SHIPPING. Construction of a fleet of "high-speed, large-capacity ships" as prototypes for modernizing the Merchant Marine through standardization of ship construction. On the basis of a Coast Guard condemnation of safety conditions aboard the cruise ship Yarmouth Castle, which burned and sank off Florida with a loss of 90 lives last year, the President proposed stiff new safety measures for liners touching in U.S. ports...
...Sanford's state government. "Not at all satisfied that state government was effective," he said, "we set out to redefine universal education; sectors of society were being left out by the education system." Born and raised in Laurinburg, North Carolina, where his father was a hardware merchant and his mother taught school for 40 years, Sanford experienced first-hand the difficulties of small-town education. He describes himself as "one who never had private education, except one semester of Bible at Presbyterian Junior College...
Primary Accident. A lonely tinkerer in the style of the Edison era, Adams has supported his yen for inventing by toiling at a lengthy catalogue of jobs-cowboy, barber, auto mechanic, house painter, merchant seaman, research director for a vacuum cleaner company. His pre-war kitchen triumph was a primary (nonrechargeable) battery that delivered an even level of electricity over long periods of time. Until then familiar primary batteries delivered electricity at a declining rate until they wore out; their charge drained off even when not in use; and they rapidly deteriorated when subjected to extreme temperatures...