Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five Americans-the children in U.S. public schools-the picture above is an image o; the future. Classroom TV is one way to face an overwhelming fact of U.S. life in a nation whose soaring birth rate now approaches India's. This week the new school year begins with a shortage of 195,000 teachers; the need is so great that nearly half the next decade's college graduates should theoretically become schoolteachers. TV will soon be familiar in more than 750 schools; in time, it will be used in the rest of them...
...dinner at the home of Minister of State Raul Roa, and talked until 2:30 a.m. Bonsai had sore topics to fire away at, including 1) fair-compensation for the $300 million in U.S. sugar holdings now facing expropriation, 2) the 21% rate slash forced on the $272 million U.S.-controlled-Cuban Electric Co., and 3) the 87 U.S. citizens arrested over the past eight months...
Heezen thinks that the Atlantic Ocean is a very old crack that has rifted over and over and grown 3,000 miles wide. Its sides may still be moving apart at the rate of about one yard in 1,000 years. At the other extreme are young rifts like those in East Africa that have not had time to split more than once. Eventually they may grow into oceans as wide...
...change? As the huge enterprise cranks up this week, it splutters far and wide. Despite ceaseless new construction, the nation's unremitting birth rate leaves the schools short of 195,000 teachers and 140,000 classrooms. Another 1,300,000 bright-eyed youngsters invaded the schools last year, and this new school year of 1959-60 begins with 1,843,000 more children than the schools have room for. One-third of the schools are potential firetraps ; some are still using gaslight; nearly 75% of the high schools are too small to pay for anything resembling a nuclear...
...tight-money squeeze sent business borrowing costs to their highest level since 1931. Banks all over the nation raised their prime rate to 5% after the pace-setting First National City Bank of New York boosted its prime rate from 4½% to 5%. Since the 5% applies only to top risks, the increase means that smaller businesses will probably have to pay 5%½ or more...