Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inducement seemed to be working. Since the offer was first made in May, inquiries at the rate of 100 a day have been made at the Australian consulates in New York and San Francisco. To date, only about 100 applicants have actually been cleared to enter Australia...
...Associated Press analyst figured out that if California's population has kept up its tremendous rate of growth since July 1946, it is now the second largest state. Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron declared firmly that his city is now the nation's third largest, with nearly two million population. The 1950 census would decide...
...other information for the audience. Britain was now a fifth-rate nation, dictated to by 4,000 Jews afloat in British ships. There was only one way to stop terrorism. Take out whole Jewish families in Palestine and shoot them against a wall and do the same to Jewish families here...
Professional artists have sometimes met that challenge by reducing realism to photographic limits; amateurs have generally chosen an easier way out, painting unconsciously formalized, decorative interpretations of their subjects. Both methods are discussed, and well illustrated with 134 examples, in a first-rate history published this week: Wolfgang Bern's Still-Life Painting in America (Oxford...
Parker then got Janesville's merchants to agree to accept each peso at a fixed value of 20? (current exchange: 4.83 to the dollar), got the banks to agree to take them from the merchants at the same rate...