Word: growth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Money from the General Investment Fund, however, is used for a variety of purposes. Thus, the growth of the fund, although considerable, is not enough to both meet University expenses and provide for the pensions, annuities and other reserves to which it is directed...
...Draper Report--prepared by the President's Committee to Study United States Military Assistance Programs--said the American government should assist other countries, upon request, in establishing population control programs. The second report, issued by the Department of State, emphasized the political repercussions of over-population: "Raid populations growth may prove to be one of the greatest obstacles to economic and social progress and the maintenance of political stability in many of the less developed areas of the world...
...aspects of the over-population question have been obscured. The countries in which population is increasing most rapidly are often those with the world's lowest standard of living. The improvements of modern medicine have cut the death rate greatly; people live longer, far fewer infants perish, and population growth seems to follow a Malthusian pattern of geometrical progression...
...countries such as India, Indonesia, and China, the increase in population has, in many case, lowered the standard of living more rapidly than technological improvements have raised it. To maintain the same standard of living with a three per cent annual population growth--a figure exceeded by many of these countries--twelve per cent of the national income should be invested. These countries, however, cannot afford both to raise living standards and feed millions of new citizens. At some point, the vicious circle of low investment, low living standards, and high birth rates must be broken...
BRANCH BANKING GROWTH in California has forced famed old Wells Fargo Bank (13 branches) to merge with the bigger American Trust Co. (102 branches). Wells Fargo-American Trust Co. will be eleventh biggest bank in U.S., with deposits of $2.3 billion...