Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only when Blakelock was beyond help were his paintings rescued from obscurity, and recognized as first-rate of their kind. In 1900, one of his landscapes won a prize at the Universal Exposition in Paris. His pictures (along with forgeries of them) were resold to museums and collectors across the country. Neither he nor his family profited...
Biggest numerical gain between 1926 and 1941-42 was scored by the largest single sect,* the Roman Catholics, with 4.3 million. But by percentages, Roman Catholicism is doing no better than the general trend: during the same period, "the 43 larger Protestant denominations showed a combined rate of growth of nearly 24%-almost identical with the percentage gain of the Roman Catholic Church...
...national association of florists, candy merchants, and bed-jacket vendors in executive session in New York City. Mother's Day, an American Institution, was born. A public, which has proved to the greatest market in the world for "cards for all occasions," embroidered pillow-slips, and cut-rate telegraph platitudes has taken Mother's Day to its soft, fatuous heart...
Spinner H. Slichter, Lament University Professor, predicted and era of economic prosperity for the United States as its production volume rises from the present rate of $194,000,000,000 to $300,000,000,000 by 1960, the Associated Press reported last night...
...health of U.S. children has never been better. The death rate of children (age i to 14) is at a record low. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. reports that in the past 15 years the child death rate has dropped 60% (see chart...