Word: medians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boring promised, "good men will not be walking the streets. They're going to find a job for themselves." Once a man cracks the field, he said, a median salary after 15 years would be as high...
...recent survey made by the National Funeral Directors Association, out of 86,369 adult funerals the median price was from $250 to $299, and purchases over $700, were only 2% of the total. . . Of all these services, 78.6% were under $399.00. . . .Every funeral director will agree that our main problem is not trying to sell $2,500 services (if there is such a thing) but rather to convince grief-stricken families to buy within their means and not allow sorrow or sentiment to influence them in a choice they may later regret...
Other statistics of the incoming group reveal that the median age is 24.6 years, that 90 percent of the new men are veterans, and that 30 percent are married...
...only buy positive action of the part of the Federal Government. Economic life has become too complex and too impersonal for attempts at improvement by lesser agencies to be effective. The precise extent of governmental control over economic activities id a matter for dispute even among Liberals, but the median of their beliefs would probably lie close to mild Socialism, encompassing supervision of essential industry, utilities, and basic resources...
...Emporia boy & girl wage earners (median age: 16) worked at 62 different jobs, mostly the usual peacetime ones of selling, waiting on table, house and farm work, soda-jerking, tending filling stations...