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Latest figures showed 1,994 new cases in one week, 8% below the previous week's 2,170. The total for the "disease year" (beginning in mid-March) stood at 20,405, as against 32,204 at the same time last year. Most likely there would be 30,000 cases before 1950 ended, second only to last year...
...season was passing its peak early. In the latest week fully reported there were 1,489 new cases of polio, only 47 more than the week before and a far cry from the 3,416 a year ago. The total to date for the "disease year" (which begins in mid-March): 9,097 cases, compared with 16,375 for the same period...
Usually the peak comes in the 36th week of the calendar year or the 26th week of the "polio year" (which begins after the low point in mid-March). This year, since the disease got off to a flying start in an early hot spell, the peak may well come early. In the South, where polio strikes sooner, new cases reported have already leveled off and should decline from now on; the North may have to wait three or four weeks for a drop...
...billion, off $9 billion from the final quarter of 1948 in the sharpest drop since the war. Still, the pace was $1 billion ahead of the average for 1948, biggest year on record. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that manufacturing employment fell by 330,000 between mid-March and mid-April. But seasonal increases in trade and construction offset the loss, and the three-month decline in overall nonagricultural employment had stopped at 43,900,000, about 400,000 below April...
...fallen short by $60,000. Tuitions ($400 a year) failed to bridge the gap. Then the trustees asked the Rutland city council for help. That involved a referendum, but last week it was still a month away, and Rutland's 16-member faculty had not been paid since mid-March. Facing these facts, President Benjamin B. Warfield, a 44-year-old Navy veteran, went to the college books for figures. The college needed at least $10,000 to tide it over until the referendum; it had just $35.70 in the bank. It looked as if Rutland Junior College might...