Word: percents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purpose of this survey, Rowse chose to concentrate on part of the 1952 Presidential campaign coverage.. He cites some important background statistics: according to Editor & Publisher's poll of the nation's newspapers, in terms of circulation 80 percent of the papers sold daily editorially backed Eisenhower, 11 percent supported Stevenson and 9 percent were uncommitted; of the weekly papers 75 percent favored Eisenhower, 20 percent Stevenson, with the others undecided...
...York Times, all papers--both Republican and Democratic--showed evidence of favoritism in their news columns in violation of their own accepted rules of conduct," and that "almost every example of favoritism in the news columns coincided with the paper's editorial feelings." This "would indicate that over 80 percent of the nation's newspaper readers may be getting their editorials with some Republican flavoring...
...penny inflation," Bernstein said, rising at a rate of about three percent a year. He called for "bold efforts taken now" to preserve the historic position of sterling as a reserve area...
Explaining to his audience that the present population of the world is 2,700, 000,000, Stamp said that it was increasing by 1.3 percent per year. "That means," he pointed out, "that the world adds onto itself a population the size of Canada every six months. It adds 100,000 people every day, or almost one person every second...
Speaking on the social and economic progress of Pakistan, Jalal pointed out that the two chief objectives of the Five-Year plan are a safe, but sufficient food supply, and a 75 percent increase in industry, to meet the demands of a population that is increasing at the rate of two a minute. Pakistan also hopes to raise its $60 per capita annual income by at least 7 percent. This compares with a $2000 to $3000 per capita income in the United States...