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Canadian Petrofina set up its first office in a one-room Montreal apartment, opened its first service station late in 1953. Since then, the company has opened 1,500 stations in Eastern Canada and is currently building new ones at the rate of three every two days, aiming for a total of 2,200 by the end of this year. Capitalized at $25 million when it began, Canadian Petrofina is now worth around $130 million. Its stock, sold for $10 in 1953, is now quoted at $29 a share...
...Approved a resolution establishing the Booker T. Washington National Monument at Washington's birthplace in Franklin County, 25 miles south of Roanoke, Va. As sent to the President, the bill authorized $200,000 for developing a 537-acre tract where now stands a reconstructed version of the one-room cabin where Booker Washington was born a slave on April...
...immigrants who arrived from Europe, North Africa, Yemen and Iraq between 1948 and 1953-at the rate of one every three minutes-still live in temporary accommodations, and the dominant feature of the Israeli landscape is no longer the tent camp of the first years of statehood but the ubiquitous, neat, garage-sized concrete houses-the longed-for "permanent" housing. Along the Jerusalem Road, where village after village of red-roofed one-room houses have been set up, the majority of settlers have built on an extra room at their own expense and are cultivating gardens among the rocks. Says...
TIME has a few editors who attended one-room country schools. It even has one who went to a one-pupil schoolhouse. He is Associate Editor James C. Keogh, who wrote this week's cover story on Governor Averell Harriman...
...public schools in this nation, and that modern philosophies of education have ruined them, is the most obvious kind of nonsense. What kind of public schools existed 50 years ago? City schools were dull and dingy buildings, with classes of 40 or more pupils common. Country schools were usually one-room affairs, with children of widely varying age and ability taught at the same time. Few of the teachers 50 years ago had anywhere near as much education of any kind as most teachers today. The elementary school curriculum was pretty much limited to the Three Rs, and the high...