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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...socialist. A Land Authority began to enforce an old law limiting corporate sugar holdings to 500 acres, broke up the big mainland-owned companies, formed collective-like "proportional profit" cane plantations. A TVA-style Water Resources Authority took over power production from several private power companies, and began wide-scale irrigation as well. Using $10.7 million in treasury funds, Fomento built or took over factories to make cement, glass and cardboard (for rum bottles and cases), shoes, tile...
...earth's surface was not sculptured for man's convenience, but nuclear explosives may permit man to do his own large-scale sculpturing. Last week the Atomic Energy Commission announced that in two weeks a party of scientists from the University of California's Radiation Laboratory and the U.S. Geological Survey will leave San Francisco for the dismal northwest coast of Alaska. Their purpose: to figure whether a harbor can and should be blasted there with nuclear explosives...
...Salk vaccine against paralytic polio may be even more effective than the statistics have shown. Since wide-scale vaccination began in 1955, there have been hundreds of reported cases of paralysis among people who had had one or two shots (only a handful among those who had had three). But in last week's A.M.A. Journal, a University of Pittsburgh team headed by Dr. William McD. Hammon
...return, however, is not enough. There must be a full-scale reevaluation of the Levelling Philosophy. For the benefit of all students, we can institute course requirements in language, mathematics, and science--and provide for advanced work in literature and history. If the grammar school has not taught its charges the fundamentals of reading writing, and spelling, the secondary school should not compound the folly and bequeathe colleges a simple-sentence, monosyllabic thinker...
...only is teaching among the three lowest paid professions in the United States (bedfellowing with journalists and clergymen), but the pay scale is antiquated and detrimental. Teacher's salaries still increase on the basis of years of service, not talent, initiative, or accomplishment. In every industry or business concern anywhere in the nation, talented and hard-working people are rewarded on the basis of their initiative, not their tenure. Only teaching maintains this deadening idiosyncrasy...