Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Industrial progress, Davis explains, brings a drop in the death rate before it causes a drop in the birth rate. So by 1970, he estimates, Latin America's population will be between 200,000,000 and 225,000,000. By that date the U.S. is expected to have only between 150,000,000 and 170,000,000. In little more than half a century, by Davis' calculations, U.S. population may be only half of Latin America...
Cowboy Glen munched a cough drop, took a sip of water and rambled on about how he once ate jack rabbits, and about the iniquities of Wall Street...
...down such an opinion, we rarely get satisfaction. As often as not, what we get is a knowing look and a brush-off remark." Actually, said Talk No. 55, Communist ideals "are directly opposite to the stated ideals of fascist dictatorship, and their hope is to drop the appurtenances of dictatorship in the process of democratic evolution...
Advance. The best news was a sharp drop in T.B. deaths. In the first five months of 1947, the T.B. death rate among industrial insurance policyholders fell to 34.9 per 100,000-11% below the same period last year and the lowest mortality on record. T.B., once the No. 1 killer, is now No. 7. But the disease is still one of the nation's costliest ($100,000,000 a year for treatment alone), the most widespread (500,000 active cases), and the No. 1 killer in the age group...
Good or bad, the bill posed a number of prime questions. Though it specifically excepted the state of Georgia's suit against Eastern railroads for discriminatory freight rates (TIME, April 9, 1945), many Senators thought that the Supreme Court would drop the case as a moot question, if the bill should become...