Modern Women Prefer Cars To Plains Trekking
A humorous column notes that modern women avoid long road trips with children, preferring air conditioned station wagons over covered wagon style travel. The writer jokes about division of travel chores and a wife who resists long treks yet later begs to drive after 400 or 500 miles, citing a great grandmother crossing the plains with cattle.
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Greenland Icebergs Reach Atlantic Shipping Lanes
About 7,500 icebergs form yearly from west coast glaciers in Greenland. Roughly one in 20 drift 1200 to 2500 miles to the Grand Bank south of Newfoundland, entering North Atlantic shipping lanes. Some have been seen as far south as the Azores, Gibraltar, and near Bermuda.
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Italians Buy More Durables Amid Wage Strain
Rome reports that while most Italian salaries still cover food, many households now purchase durables. Among 12.5 million households, 3 percent own televisions, 2 percent refrigerators, 20 percent automobiles, 8 percent washing machines, 6 percent floor polishers, and 5 percent vacuum cleaners.
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California Tops New York in Wood Working Jobs
California has surpassed New York as the state with the most people employed in wood working industries, according to the American Forest Products Industries.
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