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...familiar 88 alphabetical characters, numerals and punctuation symbols. When the typist strikes the keyboard, the typewriter's motor rapidly tilts and rotates the element on its axis as it moves across the paper, bringing the proper character into position for printing. The element is then rocked against ribbon and paper to print the character. This is essentially the same principle used by the Dow-Jones business-news ticker and the old Hammond typewriter...
Poor Adjustment. When he retired in 1928, Cobb's financial future was assured: he. had invested much of his salary (up to $60,000 a year) in blue-ribbon stocks -among them Coca-Cola and General Motors. But he adjusted poorly to retirement, restlessly moved from California to Nevada and then back to his native Georgia. "You cannot eat baseball and sleep baseball and study baseball year after year and then just stop like that," he once explained. "It's in the bloodstream. You crave it. You can't get along without...
...keep weaker lines from bankruptcy it has given them good routes in direct competition with the strong lines. With rare exceptions the added competition hurt the strong and weak lines alike. Classic example: hoping to help out much-troubled Northeast Airlines, the CAB permitted it to fly the blue-ribbon New York-Miami route in competition with vigorous Eastern and National. Result: not only has Northeast failed to make a profit, but the sharp competition has turned the other two lines' black ink to red on that route...
...Northeast is in part a victim of CAB's ill-advised attempts to strengthen weak airlines by granting them additional routes. To shore up Northeast, which began as a regional carrier in New England, the board five years ago granted the line the right to fly the blue-ribbon New York-Miami route, which Eastern and National Airlines were already flying. Against such entrenched lines, Northeast could not attract enough passengers to make money for itself, and it cut so deeply into Eastern's and National's traffic that they began losing money on what had been...
...mother finally do abandon the children to seek work elsewhere. Erica is relieved. Now 14, she feels responsible, mature, freed at last from the terror of waiting. Stubbornly refusing the neighbors' charity, she hits upon the inevitable solution. She goes to stand in the window with a ribbon in her hair, waiting for the soldiers to pass by. Never confusing sympathy with sentimentality. Author Vittorini somehow manages to preserve Erica's lambent innocence even as she turns prostitute...