The Life and Science of Alfred H. Woodcock
1986; Springer Nature (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês
10.1007/978-94-009-4668-2_1
ISSN0924-4565
Autores Tópico(s)Climate Change Communication and Perception
ResumoThe stock market crash of 1929 plunged the United States into the greatest crisis since the Civil War, and by the spring of 1931 the country had entered the long dark night of an economic depression. But in the small seaside town of Daytona, Florida, Mrs. Woodcock didn’t have time to worry about the state of the country. She had something else to worry about. Her youngest son, Alfred, had just quit his job on a farm in Massachusetts. Leaving one job for something better is perhaps an admirable thing to do, but this was his 25th job since dropping out of high school about 10 years before. And what was his 26th job to be? A sailor! Woodcock decided that he wanted to go to sea. His mother, of course, had no way of knowing this was to be his last job, one that would lead him into science. To her it was just the latest in a long line of jobs that seemed to go on and on and on. She was really worried.
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