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...York City teaches addition and subtraction by using weighted numerals that hang from each end of the bar; only the combined weight of a two and a seven, for example, will balance a nine. Playskool Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, which got many of its long-popular peg-and-hole toys from standard IQ tests, now makes a 100-bead counting board similar to the teaching materials of Montessori schools...
High living by union leaders is a common complaint among rank and file these days (see U.S. BUSINESS). Yet anti-McDonald Steelworkers peg their campaign more formally to the charge that he has neglected the problems of the union's 2,600 locals. While overall wage patterns and working conditions are negotiated in union contracts with the big steel companies, locals are bound by no-strike pledges in arguing local grievances-and the grievance machinery has completely bogged down. It takes three years for some such cases to be resolved. Instead of working to soothe such gripes himself, McDonald...
...These are the original blues, collected and classified by their indefatigable historian, Samuel Charters, and sung by some of the Southern Negroes who in the last 50 years developed the new form from the work songs of slave days. The recording includes singers like Sleepy John Estes, Bukka White, Peg Leg Howell, Ham Gravy, and Kokomo Arnold (with his wild falsetto). Not all the songs are as rural as Skip Jones's Little Cow and Calf Is Gonna Die Blues...
...came when Hull went to the much-vaunted World Economic Conference in London in 1933 with the hope of increasing international trade by stabilizing the world's wildly fluctuating exchange rates. Roosevelt was experimenting with inflation as a cure for the U.S. Depression and did not want to peg the dollar. He torpedoed the conference (and Hull) with a disdainful note saying the U.S. would not cooperate...
This left Falcone, who came charging down third, mercilessly stranded. He retreated desperately while catcher Bob Michela threw to third sacker Tom Carll. Carll couldn't hold the peg, however, and Falcone reversed his direction once again, turning his reprieve into the decisive...