Lost in the Marianas!

摘要

10 YEARS AGO. Home Sales Rose to a five-month high in April ahead of the expiration of an $8,000 federal tax credit to first-time buyers. Sales rose 7.6% from the previous month to an annual rate of 5.77 million units, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). 35 YEARS AGO. EPA Proposes Stricter Regulation of Dry Cleaners. In the matter of air pollution, the EPA is proposing stricter federal regulation of dry cleaners, service stations, wood burning stoves, home heaters and industrial heaters, while leaving chemical plant supervision largely up to state regulation. 50 YEARS AGO. Pants Problem: Pocket Protection__Wear-resistant plastic film is being used by several clothing manufacturers. It's bonded to the inside bottom three inches of the pants pockets in men's slacks to prevent the small holes that usually turn up there. B.F. Goodrich, maker of the new film, says that the product has also been utilized as reinforcement for knee sections of 45 million pairs of boys' pants.