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Word: rateness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France has long worried about her birth rate, one of the lowest in the world. Statisticians have figured that, should births keep on declining at the present rate, France's population would decline from its present 42,000,000 to 35,000,000 in 1980. French births numbered in all 610,000 last year, as compared to about 1,000,000 in Italy, 1,500,000 in Germany. In the "more babies" campaign decreed last week the Government: 1) announced "motherhood" bonuses of from $53 to $80 for first-born and higher premiums for succeeding children; 2) doubled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Record | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...wrote, "New Zealand has been transformed from a virgin wilderness into a land where 1,600,000 people enjoy the amenities of modern life. Wealth has been won and is being won in rich abundance. . . . The country has proved a valuable field for British emigration and investment, a first-rate market, a dependable source of foodstuffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Daniel in the Den | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Painful to U. S. airlines is the dizzy rate at which transport planes grow obsolete. In 1933 United Air Lines paid $2,500,000 for 55 Boeing 247s. Within six months the new Douglas DC2 outloaded, outsped them. When T.W.A. bought a fleet of DC-2s, United spent $1,500,000 more revamping its Boeings. But Douglas engineers were already mocking-up (building a model) the still bigger & better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: DC-4s to Patterson | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Marathon is now producing the new lignin plastic at the rate of 25 tons a day, has raw materials on hand for a top production of 400 tons daily. Last year the company's net sales were $11,109,000. Last week its officials announced a $1,500,000 expansion program. But Chemist Howard was still scouting ahead. His goal: to establish his new chemical talk-of-the-town as the most important addition to the world's store of raw materials since coal tar and cellulose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Ex-Nuisance | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...Nashville, Tenn. 81-year-old Farmer C. C. Neely sued three youths for snipping off three feet of his beard. The court awarded Farmer Neely damages at the rate of $33.33 a foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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