Headline of the Day -100:
The Organization of Teachers of Colored Children of New Jersey complains that black teachers are paid $100 to $200 less per year than white ones in several NJ counties (no, it doesn’t say less than what figure).
Japan claims to have stopped a Russian-backed Communist plot to take over the government last June.
The American Engineering Standards Committee is trying to standardize the colors of traffic signs and signals. In Chicago, for instance, green means stop.
A bill is introduced in the NY Legislature to require licenses for people flying airplanes. Stunt flights over populated areas or too close to the ground would be banned, as would hunting from planes. Planes approaching each other would pass on the right, and lighter-than-air aircraft would have right of way over heavier-than-air ones. Marriages (and other contracts) entered into in aircraft would be legal, subject to the laws of the land underneath.
Headline of the Day -100:
Bitten by a radioactive heterodyne?
Q. When do you stop at green and go at red?
ReplyDeleteA. When you're eating a watermelon.