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Word: rates (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must be getting to be a maudlin old so'n so. At any rate, "What Is an American?" had me shaking with emotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...recovered to 40% of the 19307 34 level. For example, the great Yawata steel plant (a favorite wartime target of U.S. bombers from China) was producing again-62,000 tons of ingots and rolled steel in April; but this was only one-seventh of 1941's peak production rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: One or Many? | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...World War II, 34 U.S. correspondents out of some 600 to 800 were killed-a casualty rate of over 4%. Percentage for the Army: 2.98% killed or missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...stock (worth about $800,000 at its present price), he bought control of New York's six John David, Inc. men's wear stores (last year's gross: $8.8 million). That deal gave Hoving a total of 13 stores, boosted his current gross to an annual rate of $28 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hurry-Up Moving | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...TIME, Aug. 21, 1939)> a failure when first published, went unread for nearly 72 years. His personal story of the Civil War, A Volunteer's Adventures (TIME, July 22, 1946), was published for the first time two years ago. Now it appears that there are still more first-rate De Forest works to be read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neglected Giant | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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