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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announced, was 131,409,881. To his report of last spring's painstaking national nose count, he had few remarks to add. Chiefly he wanted to focus attention on what he considered the Census' most striking fact: from 1930 to 1940 the U. S. had shown the lowest rate of increase in population in 150 years...
...honest soldier ever got rich in the U. S. Army. In 1782 George Washington's major generals were entitled by law to $31.60 a month, plus rations; his lowest subaltern, to $3.15. But many a Revolutionary private got more. The Continental States and their impoverished Congress at Philadelphia bid against each other for men, ran prices as high as $86.66 a month (in the Massachusetts and New Hampshire Militias), up to $1,000 cash bounty, 100 to 500 acres in land-bounty a man. Said General Washington, before the war and the bidding were well under way: "Never were...
...play that determines the champion. Left to uphold the honor of the crooners' guild was Richard D. ("Dick") Chapman, 29-year-old New York and Pinehurst socialite, whose nightclub warbling has been more lark than livelihood. Playboy Chapman turned in the best medal score-140 (71-69), second lowest in Amateur history...
This astonishing performance was particularly noted in Wall Street. There, while fall weather turned brokers' minds to football pools, volume of trading on the New York Stock Exchange hit a 24-year low, and a seat was bought at the lowest price in 26 years. Stock prices, as they have for weeks, stayed at levels disproportionately low compared with current corporate earnings. Main reason: fear that Nazi bombers will make Britain surrender...
Aluminum's answers: apart from a 270% increase in 1914-16, and modest 1?increase in 1937, its price record includes cuts in the inflated 1925-29 period, two more cuts since the suit began-the second last week by 1? a Ib. to 18?, the lowest price ever. As for the bauxite monopoly, Alcoa pointed to plenty of uncontrolled low-cost ore in Surinam (Dutch Guiana), high-cost ore in Arkansas. As for national defense, Alcoa pointed to $26,000,000 worth of plant expansion in 1937, $30,000,000 worth last year. As for the ingot monopoly...