Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing for Granted. Prices were high, but so were wages and so was employment. National income was running at the rate of $215 billion a year-a new record. Production lines were humming. There were no critical consumers' shortages anywhere. People were already getting used to such products of the postwar dream world as television and home laundries. One U.S. steamship company was ready to lay down the largest, most luxurious passenger ship in U.S. maritime history; the new Ford would soon be unveiled...
...Atomic Energy Commission continued experiments with rutin, a complex chemical compound obtained from green buckwheat. In experiments with dogs at the University of Rochester, it reduced the death rate from radiation from 64% to 12% by checking internal bleeding, one of the effects of radiation...
...effects of radiation (on the heredity carriers called genes) would produce a race of monsters. Nothing to worry about there, said the Surgeon General's office. The Army Medical Corps is confident that since irradiation is usually fatal to developing embryos, "the result . . . would probably be a higher rate of abortion and miscarriage...
...century, doctors have known that infected mosquitoes spread malaria. The unsolved mystery has been: Where does the parasite that causes malaria hide out during the ten-day interval between the mosquito's bite and the appearance of the fever? An answer might cut down the world death rate from malaria, still nearly 2,000,000 victims a year...
...last two tallies surprised no follower of earlier counts. The Activities Fee, which would have offered undergraduate cut-rate but compulsory membership in two clubs, tickets for the idler Players, and subscriptions to the News, the college magazine and the yearbook, went down with 345 negative votes to 177 affirmatives...