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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...
...first recorded air-conditioning sys tems was devised in the 8th century by the Caliph al-Mahdi of Bagdad. He transported snow from the Zagros Mountains via camel trains, packed it in. the double walls of his summer home...
Major General Hershey has now deprived the test sys of its one meagre function. By indicating that he will raise or lower the passing grade depending on the needs of the armed forces, Hershey has reduced the draft problem to its status before the tests were administered: confusion...
...jibe with his new conclusions. Rather, they tended to justify his original promerger stand. Many of his suddenly real ized objections to merger were just as valid on Dec. 8, 1944. But now he said: "We should be certain that we do not destroy the strengths of our present sys tem in accepting a new and untried...
...population, but no pork on the butcher's rack and an acute shortage of feed for Eastern dairy cows.) Weather Means Everything. With farm groups last week - at Omaha, Min neapolis, Yakima, Wash. - Anderson made a highly favorable, sense-making impression, discussing how to work out a sys tem of price relationships that would provide incentives for the production of grain, for converting enough of it into meat and for getting that meat to market...