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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With this new list, many men who had been receiving high priority because of numerical class were moved to lower ranking because of lesser social class standing...
Also moved to lower priority by the re-allocation were those who had applied for tickets together with men who were re-classified. Students who apply jointly are given tickets according to the lowest priority in the group applying...
...usually have fewer children than the poorest of the poor. The same is often (though not always) true of nations. Sweden, probably the best-fed nation in the world, has one of the lowest birth rates, only 15 per 1,000. Argentina, a notably well-fed nation, has a lower birth rate (21 per 1,000) than hungry Chile next door...
...abandoned lime quarry at Makapangsgat, Transvaal, yielded two bones last year to Dart's diggers: part of an occiput (the back part of the skull) and a lower, jaw, from a pygmy moppet who had died while still getting his second teeth. Near by were many baboon skulls, bashed in from above or behind with a club which had a ridged head (the distal end of the humerus...
...profits were down, the cause was generally 1) high-priced inventories at a time when prices were dropping or 2) a shift to a buyers' market, which cut sales. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, for one, reported a third-quarter net of $3.1 million (v. $5.3 million last year) on lower sales. Standard Brands showed a profit of only $787,519, a drop of 49%. With sales slipping, five out of eleven makers of electric appliances reported declines ranging from 2% (for Noma Electric) to 43% (for Bendix Home Appliances). Truckmakers Diamond T and Autocar slipped badly and Reo Motors drove...