Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Town & Country. Doctors who doubt or deny a cause-and-effect relation between cigarette smoking and lung cancer have always seized on the fact that death rates from this disease are higher in the cities than down on the farm. Therefore, they argue, the cause must be smog or exhaust fumes, or simply the sinful exhalations of mass man. They may be half right, but no more, according to Dr. Hammond's figures: the smaller a man's home town, the less likely he is to smoke cigarettes heavily. This accounts for part of the urban-rural difference...
...cigarettes daily) has X chance of larynx cancer, a 16-to-34 man has almost double that chance and an over-35-a-day smoker nearly four times that chance. Noninhaling cigar and pipe smokers run about the same risk as 16-to-34 cigarette men (higher, relatively, than their risk of lung cancer...
...workers for only 5? more an hour, while in the chronically depressed textile and clothing industry 135,000 workers were willing to renew their present contracts with no pay boost at all. To date, the majority of raises have been from 7? to 10? an hour, 50% higher than 1954's 5? to 7? an hour. Furthermore, in some cases, workers had actually taken a slight pay cut because of a downward cost-of-living adjustment...
...profit. Furthermore, the traders had counted on delivering minimum-size 2-in. potatoes in the standard 100-1b. bags used by the exchange. But this year Maine's farmers got the Agriculture Department to allow only 2¼-in. potatoes in 100-lb. bags, thus setting a higher standard, which stabilized prices. Although this restriction was rescinded, Maine potatoes were selling for $4.20 per 100 lbs., when the May futures closed, a drop of only 95? since the April high. Traders feared that if they tried to buy, they might drive the price up again...
...Jewish rather than the Greek sense, following the testimony of the Bible rather than critical argument." Today, says Siegfried, "American society appears as a first-class piece of organization ... a collective community with mass discipline and large-scale teamwork," devoted to ever greater production and ever higher standards of living...