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Newspaper
Orono Weekly Times
Location
Orono, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 11, 1950
Page
3
The National Industrial Conference Board compares buying power using hourly wages across 1914 to 1948. It notes hours needed for food, clothing, and housing, showing a shift from long hours for basics to increased comforts and a higher standard of living today.
The article argues nature supplied blueprints for human tools from spades to spears. It links cavemen observing mole forefeet to spade ideas, notes birds’ beaks as models for chisels and hooks, and cites fish and arthropods as inspirations for paddles, mail, and weapons, suggesting human innovation imitates natural forms.
Seven year old Carl A. Anderson of Texas plans to release over 760 Monarch butterflies bred in his backyard and brand them with serial numbers. He expects postcards from nature lovers tracing migrations across North America to study their patterns. He notes Monarchs fly up to 25 miles an hour in a direct line and migrate south to winter, north to Canada in warmer weather.
A coast-to-coast Better Homes and Gardens survey of 2000 new homebuilders shows Cape Cod remains the preferred style while ranch and contemporary designs rise fast. Cape Cod dominates the East and West North Central regions, with ranch and contemporary styles strongest in the West and Southwest and gaining in the East where one-fifth of new homes are now ranch or contemporary.
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