Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poor and middle-income families pay a higher proportion of their incomes than the national average. The last breakdown (1944) by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that a family living on $500 to $1,000 a year spent $88 on doctors, dentists, osteopaths, chiropractors, faith healers, hospitals, X rays, drugs (both prescription and proprietary), eyeglasses and appliances. Families earning $2,500 to $3,000 paid an average of $123 a year; those earning $4,000-$5,000 paid $190; and those earning more than $5,000 paid $265. The 1948 total, based on higher costs all around, was estimated...
...then that the election officials embark on a procedure that would baffle U.S. politicians. British law requires that the ballots from all the polling places in the constituency be mixed on a large counting table before the count is begun. This makes it impossible to get a breakdown of the vote by districts. The returning officer declares the candidate elected who received the highest number of votes...
...finances with a skilled and autocratic hand; in London. Attempting to rebuild the international monetary structure shattered by World War I, Norman, with the approval of Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, pushed Britain back onto the gold standard in 1925, was bitterly criticized when the worldwide breakdown forced her off again in 1931. When he finally stepped down, he had held office longer than any other Governor in the Bank's 256-year history...
...company. Flocks of engineers, sent to treat the patient, could find nothing organically wrong. After the war was over, the work load decreased. The ailing exchange recovered and is now entirely normal. Its trouble had been "functional": like other hard-driven war workers, it had suffered a nervous breakdown...