Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public health programs have warred on such diseases as malaria, endemic syphilis and yaws. In Ceylon, for example, the death rate has tumbled 34% in one year, 70% in ten years. Populations promptly shot up, since birth rates in most of these nations remain at their traditionally high level...
...noted Dr. David McCord Wright, professor of economics and political science at Montreal's McGill University, the value of goods and services produced per capita in 1955 was $187, v. $2,343 in the U.S. Even to increase the per capita gross national product to the present U.S. level by 1980−when Mexico's population will have doubled−Mexico would have to boost national output 2,500% (to $156 billion) and invest the astronomical sum of some $400 billion in capital. In Burma the same goal would take an 8,900% boost in G.N.P...
...businessmen of the world, meeting in San Francisco, the world's prime economic problem is inflation. The economic disease may be relatively mild, as in the U.S., where prices have risen 3.6% in a year after staying level for four years. Or it may be virulent, as in Brazil, where living costs have risen at a rate of 20% a year for the past six years. None of the conference representatives had any trouble naming the chief causes: 1) the desire of everyone to consume goods faster than production−and the productivity of labor −can be increased...
...process. Indonesia has failed to pass a mining-and-oil-exploration law that would bring in new foreign companies, will offer no assurances against confiscation of new capital. Indonesia's legislature has ordered a 35-hour week, though per capita income is an estimated 15% below the level under The Netherlands' rule, and the population is rising 50% faster than production...
...Christian Emperor Constantine affronted the wealthy tomb owners by ordering the construction of a great ramp of earth from the side of the hill against which the tombs nestled. Ruthlessly, though with great care not to disturb the dead, most of the tombs were sliced off to the level of the ramp, and their interiors were rammed full of earth. On this ramp Constantine began the construction of the first Church of St. Peter...