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...national rate was 5.8 deaths per 100,000 persons; by last year, according to a new study of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. policyholders, the figure had dropped to 1.9 per 100,000. Last week,with the first 1955 statistics being tallied, the trend was still downward. Other changes on the homicide chart...
...Heard Willie Yelling." It was too late. As the climbers negotiated an ice-filled "funnel," the snow mass whispered 700 ft. above them. Tony Woodfield glanced up and saw a mass of powdery snow break downward. "I yelled 'Avalanche!' and dug my ax into the ice and hung on." The avalanche thundered down. The rope tying Woodfield to the others tightened painfully, then broke, leaving him safe while his friends were swept 1,000 ft. down the mountain. Peter Smith, 13, of Paoli, Pa., managed to leap to one side, and was saved. "When it passed, I unwound...
...Mexico cities (1954 gross: more than $155 million), made its store managers meet individual sales quotas that represented from 25% to 50% of the total retail grocery business in some areas. Safeway denied any antitrust violations, said its policy is to "meet competitors' prices and not lead them downward." Meanwhile, 157 Abilene area grocers have filed a $166,000 civil suit against Safeway for losses incurred during a price war in which one independent grocer was forced out of business...
...this point the earth's field points directly downward and therefore has no deflecting effect on the incoming particles. In Canada last summer...
...economic problem approaching national scope is in agriculture. Burdened by a glut of surpluses piled up under the old rigid price-support program, the farm economy has been moving downward. The Eisenhower Administration is standing steadfastly behind the principle that the whole economic farm situation will be better, in the long run, if the new flexible price-support system, which is based closer to supply and demand, is given a chance to work...