Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Maternity Center Association was founded 30 years ago, it had one aim: lowering the U.S. maternal death rate. M.C.A. urged editors of general magazines to drop their priggish taboos against discussing the problems of pregnancy; it advised women to get medical care early in pregnancy-and hospitals to give...
...preaching pre-natal care, and founded institutes in which 25,000 nurses learned better techniques of caring for women in childbirth; in 1932 a school was established for training nurse-midwives to replace ignorant midwives. The association is proud of the part it played in lowering the maternal death rate from 9.2 per 1,000 in 1918 to 3.7 (including diseases of pregnancy...
...railroads, blessed with a series of rate boosts, were climbing fast, though some had been nipped by the coal strike. Example: Robert R. Young's coal-hauling Chesapeake & Ohio netted only $4.3 million, down 60% under last year...
...crest cf the boom been reached? The department found some evidence that it had. In three states (Florida, California and Louisiana), land prices had begun to sag. Land values almost everywhere else were still rising, but the rate was down from 1947. Income-wise, farm land was still cheaper than at the peak of the World War I boom, as the cash yield per acre is now 59% higher...
...Rate Peace. CAB called a halt to the rate war between scheduled and independent air freight carriers (TIME, Oct. 6). It set a new minimum rate of 16? a ton mile for the first 1,000 miles, 13? thereafter. CAB thought that lower rates "would endanger the sound development of the air freight industry...