Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drake described education as 'a tough business. You have to love it," he said. "It's a 25 hour per day job with low pay." In hiring teachers, Drake said, he was not interested in subject matter specialists as in competent handlers of boys and girls...
...Buenos Aires' Retiro Park for a mammoth show marking the first anniversary of the purchase of the national railways from their British owners. It was a full-blown Peronista rally, and the speeches had all the flavor of the old oligarch-baiting times. Without bothering to offer proof, Perón's Transport Minister proclaimed that the railways (reported last month to be losing money at the rate of $100 million a year) were now in the black. The boss of the railway unions rose to shout: "If at any time it becomes necessary, the workers will rise...
Unwanted Task. Just how long this new parade of personal triumphs would continue depended on whether Perón could lick Argentina's still unsolved economic crisis. His army critics seemed perfectly willing to leave that task to him for the present. Meanwhile, the high-flying Señora was reported setting her sights to bring down the boss of the army, whose criticisms had caused her so much recent embarrassment. When this news was conveyed to Defense Minister José Humberto Sosa Molina, at his big army base outside the capital, the general's comment was blunt...
...with the funny weather. The energy released by atom bombs is vanishingly small compared to the forces of weather. "To counteract the energy maintaining a first-class hurricane," says Harry Wexler, the bureau's chief of Special Scientific Services, "you would have to explode 20 atom bombs per second...
None of this information has been released by the tight-lipped Navy, but the latest Official Gazette of the U.S. Patent Office (sold to all askers for $17.50 per year) contains a fair description, between an automatic arc starter and a wire cheese slicer, of U.S. Patent 2,461,797, Zwicky's underwater...