Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really rock-bottom problem remained. Chicago's Robert Maynard Hutchins had stated it well two years ago. He said: "A world state can arise and endure only on the solid foundations of a world community. No such community exists. . . . The only hope is to increase the rate of moral progress tremendously, to increase it beyond anything we have ever dreamed...
...deserted his old post for the duration, he had certainly not been idle elsewhere. Last week, just before Eros returned to Piccadilly Circus, Health Minister Aneurin Bevan was able to announce that, for the first time in 25 years, Britain's birth rate had overtaken its death rate...
Industrial progress, Davis explains, brings a drop in the death rate before it causes a drop in the birth rate. So by 1970, he estimates, Latin America's population will be between 200,000,000 and 225,000,000. By that date the U.S. is expected to have only between 150,000,000 and 170,000,000. In little more than half a century, by Davis' calculations, U.S. population may be only half of Latin America...
...ease his province's labor shortage (TIME, May 26), solved his biggest problem of all last week. He found a way to get the British workers to Canada. Premier Drew contracted with Transocean Air Lines (headquarters: Oakland, Calif.) to fly 7,000 of them over at the rate of 80 a day in five chartered DC-4s, beginning in about a month...
...Washington), a variety show, some boxing bouts from Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, a film of Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony. By early 1952, NBC hopes to cast its net from coast to coast. One big obstacle to the big plans: A.T. & T.'s proposed cable rates-almost ten times the rate for radio broadcasts...