Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present Germany is probably stepping up her [airplane] production rate faster than Britain, France and the United States combined, so that for the next few months-probably until next spring or early summer-the Reich may well lengthen her lead. . . . After that time the Allies, aided by large purchases from the United States, should gradually overtake the German lead and eventually-perhaps by the fall of 1940 or the spring of 1941-outstrip Germany in quantitative production...
...month, against about 1,000 for Britain,* plus 300-to-500 for France and 250-to-400 military planes for the U. S. (Even if each side loses ten planes a day, these figures if true mean that the air force of each side is evidently growing at the rate of more than 40 ships a day.) Expert Baldwin quoted official estimates of the potential of Germany's 28 factories and 400,000 workers at 5,000 planes per month by spring, but reckoned this figure a bit high. U. S. output may reach 900 per month...
...latest . . . figures available for Ottawa County, Oklahoma . . . show that the [mortality] rate for all forms of tuberculosis [in 1930] was then 379.9 per 100,000 for males and 95.8 for females . . . the rate in the United States . . . was 71.8 for males, and 63.0 for females...
...Federal Reserve Board's Index of Production), has been running at 93.9% of capacity, well ahead of consumption, but the temperamentally optimistic Iron Age reported that orders for early 1940 production would account for only 65-80% of capacity. A decline to this level in the steel rate will be enough to drag the production index down from its current 120-plus to something closer to 103, the level the boom started from...
...spite of the temporary coal boom which war produced, anthracite ran into one of its characteristic price wars, and bituminous coal production, down 6% from the 10,450,000-ton peak hit week ended Oct. 26, was apparently headed back down to a 9,000,000-ton weekly rate...