Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 15,000 homeless people struggled out of the muck to the barren hills beyond; 39 were known dead, 90 were reported missing, and many unrecorded migrants were lost. Downriver at Laredo, the sullen, muddy river crested at 62.2 ft., a good 10 ft. higher than the previous record and 20 ft. higher than the International Bridge, which was swept away...
...less striking were the statisticians' findings that even the most moderate cigarette smokers (half a pack or less a day) also showed significantly higher death rates from both heart disease and cancer than nonsmokers, and that the increase includes all types of cancer, not only in the lung. Cigar and pipe smokers show no consistent increase in mortality. There is less chain-smoking of cigarettes in rural than urban areas, and the rural death rates from heart disease and cancer are lower...
...Positive Theory." No one piece of evidence taken alone proves a cause-and-effect relationship between smoking and these higher death rates, said Dr. Hammond. But, he went on, every bit of evidence so far available fits the hypothesis that it is a case of cause and effect. Sallying from their statistical sanctuary, Hammond and Horn went out on a limb: "It is our opinion that regular cigarette smoking causes an increase in death rates from [heart disease and cancer]. We now advance this as a positive theory...
Weather Lesson. The smallish hurricane that hit Freeport, Texas in 1949 taught them a startling lesson. The great waves rode higher than anyone dreamed they could. They twisted and smashed the steelwork of the sea rigs, and tossed heavy machines around as if they were wooden mockups...
WORLD RECOVERY, as gauged by foreign gold and dollar reserves, is pushing ahead steadily, says the U.S. Commerce Department. In 1954's first quarter, foreign nations boosted their gold and dollar holdings to a record postwar high of $23.5 billion, $2.2 billion higher than 1953 and a whopping $8 billion better than...