Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thiouracil is a synthetic drug which slows metabolism, the rate at which the body burns its fuel-food. Recently Dr. George Van Der Noot and others of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station mixed 0.25% of this biological fire extinguisher in the feed of gilts and barrows (young female and castrated male hogs). The results were cheering to farmers. The slowed-down hogs invested their food in fat instead of burning it up in rooting. For each 100 Ibs. of weight gained, they ate 27.5% less feed than hogs that were deprived of thiouracil...
...that good a husband? At ten, Betty Humby was the youngest pupil ever to win a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. At 14 she had 30 pupils of her own and at 16 she was a piano professor under Myra Hess. As a concert soloist, however, critics rate her as competent, not great...
Psychiatrists think the strains are severe right now-what with the international situation, economic worries, a rising divorce rate, the disintegration of family life and the readjustment difficulties of veterans. The A.P.A. estimates that there are between eight and nine million psychoneurotics in the postwar...
...Navion production had lagged because of delays in engine deliveries. When the planes finally came out, North American had no adequate sales force to sell them in the face of the light-plane slump. And the price of $7,750 was so far below cost-at the low production rate-that it became a wry joke. Once, when a prospect told Dutch that he would buy a Navion if he could "get it at cost," Dutch snapped back: "Wonderful. Make out your check...
...shattered world, the U.S. is like the friend so wealthy that no one knows what to give her for Christmas. The U.S. has everything-and it is exporting its products at the rate of $19.5 billion a year. In return, the U.S. is importing only $7.6 billion a year of the world's products...