Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week, industrial stocks took a sharp plunge on the London Exchange. Minister of Fuel and Power Emanuel Shinwell had denounced widespread rumors of impending power rationing as "malicious propaganda." But he himself had to admit last week that, unless coal production increased rapidly, there was grave danger of a breakdown in Britain's hard-struggling industry this winter...
Zimmerman is not bitter about these experiences. He is too busy pondering what he feels is one of the most serious single problems of the day: the breakdown of the family. An increasing divorce rate and decreasing birth rate point to a breakdown in the family system. "Juvenal saw this happening," says Zimmerman, "when he wrote that the object of Roman men of the time was to make their neighbors' bedsprings creak." Seeing similar signs of breakdown today, the professor feels that the larger problem can be attacked best through an attempt to shore up the foundation of the family...
...further breakdown of the degrees awarded to students from the College shows that of the 170 degrees, 102 were Bachelors of Arts, and 68 were Bachelors of Science...
...approximate breakdown of the unprecedented College numbers includes about 1,900 men in Freshman standing of whom 1,400 will be newly-registered and 500 will have attended in either the spring of summer term. Two thousand, seven hundred upperclassmen will continue their studies from earlier this year, while another 1,000, plus or minus 200, will be former. Harvard men returning from the services...
...Government bureau brought the wrath of the Catholic press on its head by bravely pointing this out. In the first issue of the 970-page Anuario D.I.C., a sort of Chilean World Almanac, the Direction Informaciones y Cultura denied the popular belief that Chile was 90% Catholic. Its religious breakdown: Freethinkers, 70%; Catholics, 25%; Protestants and others, 5%. The Anurio's explantation: only 25% of the so-called Catholics were regular churchgoers, and therefore "true Catholics...