Word: sys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moving force in building up the New Mexico Education Association, and with his own money he launched its New Mex ico School Review. He was almost solely responsible for persuading the legislature in 1935 to pass an Emergency Education Act that now brings the state school sys tem $12 million a year from a special sales...
...Million Windshields. Din Land firmly believes that creative invention is a "one-man operation," until he is convinced a new product is nearly ready to market. Then his team moves in. One of biggest potential developments: a sys tem of polarized auto windshields and leadlight lenses that, in combination, take the glare out of night driving. One big obstacle: since the super-brilliant lights used in the Polaroid system would require new headlight and windshield glass for all the 60 million-odd cars...
...bound up with the delicate nerve-sensory system - centered in the canals of the inner ear, and in little muscular pressure points located through the body - that tells man whether he is level, falling, upside down or accelerating. This delicate balance sense is closely connected with the nervous sys tem. If disturbed, it can produce effects ranging from nausea (as any victim of seasickness knows) to incapacitating shock...
...state controls, which are far more restrictive than the federal sys tem, are a patchwork of politics and protection for local milk producers. Alabama, for example, prohibits distributors from increasing out-of-state milk purchases except during a severe shortage, fixes the grocery price of milk 1?higher than the home-delivered price, even though it usually costs nearly 3? a quart less to sell through a grocery. Thus milk is 26? a quart in Birmingham, but in Chattanooga, a freely competitive market about four hours away by truck, milk is only 16? a quart. Wisconsin, because of highly efficient...
When Chile's Parliament passed historic Law 4054 in 1924, social security was introduced to the Western Hemisphere (the first U.S. federal law was passed in 1935). Since then, Chile has fleshed out the sys! tern to the point where every money earner is entitled, bylaw, to cradle-to-grave insurance against childbirth costs, doctor bills, hospital bills, disability losses and funeral expenses. Manual laborers, furthermore, get old-age pensions up to full working...