Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement might well be amended, however, to read that there will be no unemployment for those who avail themselves of the Office's services in bringing applicants together with prospective employers. Teele has been working with some 160 Seniors considerably fewer than the probable number of job-seekers even when deductions are made for those who will go on to graduate schools or who have jobs waiting for them...
...worst of the nation's 110,000 school districts have one thing in common: they are too small. A dozen states have 100 or more districts with fewer than ten pupils; in Kansas, half of all the districts are "undersized and anemic." If three small districts combined, they could pool enough money to hire one good teacher...
Plenty of Elbow Room. Unlike "mature school" economists, the Twentieth Century report finds that there is plenty of room for dynamic expansion in the U.S. economy. Thus the report estimates that in 1950 57,000,000 will be employed. They will be working fewer hours (an average of 41 a week) to produce a gross national product of $177 billion (in terms of 1944 prices)-nearly double the best prewar year. The U.S. economy will then be short only some 13% in goods & services of maintaining the entire population at a satisfactory standard of living. By 1960, some...
...cities it was turning into something resembling a bust. Although the construction industry has figured that there will be enough materials for a million new houses in 1947, the Department of Commerce now estimates that only 700,000 to 800,000 will be built. And this seemed highly optimistic. Fewer permanent new houses (133,500) were started in the first three months of 1947 than in the same period last year...
...other new drugs; e.g., deaths from pneumonia, 1930's big killer of youngsters under four, have been cut to onefourth. But medicine has made progress all along the line. Thanks to public-health campaigns and education of parents in diet and child care, there have been far fewer deaths from contagious diseases, tuberculosis, appendicitis, diarrhea, intestinal disease, rheumatic fever...