Word: dependability
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep church membership growing. With Protestants outnumbering Catholics in rural areas by nearly five to one (the national ratio is less than two to one), falling urban birthrates (ten adults now rear only seven children) threaten to make Catholicism relatively less important in the next generation. The cities depend for survival on immigration from the countryside or overseas. In 1941 urban Catholic churches are not drawing much new strength from either source...
...Territorial changes should depend on "the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned...
...investor who had paid hard cash for securities would have his return on his actual investment cut far below 6% -perhaps to a fraction of 1%-for securities are bought at prices based on their earnings; but the amount of profits a company would be allowed to keep would depend on the number of dollars previous investors had once put into the business...
...these and do not overlook the fragmentary remains of such creatures as worms, starfish, sea urchins, etc. When oilmen strike a wildcat gusher, they sometimes spend from $1,000 to $2,500 for an analysis of the microfossils which characterize it, so that finding another such well will depend less on luck...
...example, and into the Red Sea, with airplanes, tanks, guns and food for Allied forces in Africa. Others plough the Pacific to Australia, India and the Straits Settlements, come back deep-laden with rubber, tin, wool, hemp. For its trade links with Latin America, the Good Neighbor program must depend on U.S. ships...