Word: pers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announced the encouraging results of a check on the year's first 624 cases in which detailed vaccination histories were available. Of the 4.9 million children under five (the most susceptible age group) who had received no Salk shots, 298 got paralytic polio, for a rate of 6 per 100,000. Of the 10.4 million who had had three or more shots, only 52 got paralytic polio, for a rate of .5 per 100,000 cases. The ratio was almost identical in the next most vulnerable group, aged 5 to 19: of 6.1 million unvaccinated, 185 got paralytic polio...
...000th recording. For 16 years, barefoot Lata has been putting on sound tracks the songs that Indian actresses fake when they appear on the screen. Now, at 29, she is the undisputed and indispensable queen of India's "playback singers," with an output of 30 songs per week and more recordings to her name than any other singer in the world...
...union's talk about huge steel profits in 1959's exceptional first half. On the other side, the report answered industry's contention that a wage raise would necessitate a price rise. It showed that since 1951 the industry's wage-and-benefit costs per ton of steel have gone up from $32 to $44, while its price per ton has gone from $125 to $173-a $48 price rise, v. a $12 boost in employment costs...
...mining-and 75,000 of them have applied for unemployment aid. But there is not yet any shortage of steel for defense plants, and none looms in the near future. Foreign steelmakers were supplying part of the demand, used the situation to boost their prices-normally $30 to $40 per ton below U.S. mill prices-to the U.S. level or higher...
...rally to back the steelworkers at its annual convention on Sept. 18, considered a drive to collect i^ a day from each of its 13,300,000 members to help support the 500,000 steel strikers. That-on the basis of a five-day week-would amount to $1.33 per striker per week...