Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...California Deciduous Fruit Case"-90 Western railroads trying to have an I. C. C. rate-reduction on fruit set aside...
...While, for instance, the whites in the United States have a pitiable birth rate, which would be even lower except for the injections of races which still are prolific like the Irish, Hebrews and Italians, the negroes are extremely prolific. Already they reach the imposing total of 14,000,000 souls, or one-eighth of the total population of the United States. There is a great quarter in New York called Harlem, populated exclusively by colored people. A grave riot in this quarter last July was with difficulty suppressed after a night of bloody conflicts between the police and solid...
...What does it mean for the history of Western nations that China has 400,000,000 inhabitants concentrated in a single State? Coming closer home, what does it mean for the future peace of Europe that Russia has an extremely high birth rate, so much so that despite wars, epidemics, Bolshevism, famine and mass executions its total population reaches almost 150,000,000 souls...
...have big families was fashionable in England, as in the U. S., before the War. Thereafter women learned a new freedom and men tolerated contraceptives. England's birth rate declined. Recently the English birth rate has been increasing. Dr. George F. Buchan, medical officer of London, sought explanation. It lies with the women, he last week decided: "Every woman, every real woman, and there are more of the latter than the average person thinks, is desirous of having babies. . . . Present indications are that we are starting on another big family cycle...
Thirty-eight thousand feet above Dayton, Ohio, Capt. A. W. Stevens and Lieut. J. H. Doolittle were taking photographs. When their instruments indicated that they were flying toward the city at the rate of a mile a minute, they were in reality being carried away by a head wind of 115 miles an hour. Soon the thermometer registered 57° below zero and instruments ceased to work at all. Finally the oxygen line to Capt. Stevens' breathing cap froze and his head nodded forward. When Lieut. Doolittle struck him a stinging blow in the face he recovered just long...