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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warning. Natural earthquakes, said Dr. Bullen, are not ideal as tools for earth study. Their waves often start from a large region, which makes them leave fuzzy records, like the shadows cast by a bonfire. Even worse, they give no warning, so seismologists have no time to start up the expensive, sensitive instruments they use when they want to record events of special interest...
...which accounts for three-quarters of the cargo carried to an Arctic base. This alone is a big advantage, but to have military value, any installation on the icecap needs good supply routes to the outside world. Airlift is too expensive and dangerous, and weather on the icecap is often too rough for surface transport. So the engineers are putting roads under the ice too. With a Peters plow they dig a long trench 20 ft. deep. They roof it temporarily with curved, corrugated sheet metal, and cover the metal with snow. After the snow has had a few days...
...York and other big cities, is high enough to bar him from public housing but too low for luxury apartments. High-rental apartments continue to rise, and low-income projects spread by the acre, but building for the urban middle-income group has stopped almost entirely. Such families are often forced to settle for poor housing or pay rents -way above 25% of income-which they cannot afford. Said the Senate Committee on Banking: "Housing available or in prospect for families in the middle-income group is wholly inadequate...
...middle-income apartment houses are being built because operators and builders no longer find such structures attractive investments. City land is expensive, and an office building or luxury apartment offers better returns. Today's investor in a middle-income apartment building often clears only 4% after taxes, no more than he could make on a high-grade bond. When a builder does start out to construct a middle-income building, climbing costs of labor and materials often force him to end up charging monthly rentals beyond the reach of the middle-income family-up to $100 a room...
Work & Play. Billy went through Groton and Princeton ('36). while Cousin Fred, at his princely estates at Newport and in Europe, taught him to work hard and play hard. At midnight after a 17-hour day, Prince often gave Billy a packet of francs and sent him off to the casinos to learn how to lose gracefully. While Billy was serving as a World War II artillery captain in the Pacific, Prince wrote: that he wanted to adopt him and change, his name, so that a member of his family could carry on. Billy accepted, took over an empire...