Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miners, and even John L. Lewis, who was once a miner himself, knew that Bayless was right. In coal mining there is no absolute safety. Improvements have been made over the years, but the death rate is still high. Last year 974 miners died in rock falls and other accidents-most of them unnoticed beyond their home-town papers-compared with...
...average U.S. woman, announced the National Institute for Human Relations, talks slower than she used to. Her rate before the war: 175 words a minute. Her current rate...
...princes entitled to be called "Your Highness" formerly received salutes, upon entering British India, varying from eleven to 21 guns. There are some 400 other princes not entitled to be called "Your Highness" because they rate less than eleven guns; on the other hand, those that rate less than eleven guns are not entitled to be called "Your Highness." This rule was made by the British, who have a genius for government...
...Brazilian Government is not going into the trucking business. Once assembled in Ford and General Motors plants at Sao Paulo (at the rate of 160 a day), the trucks will be sold at ceiling prices to any ready buyer...
Most of the flu was type A, ordinarily mild. But this year's A-brand was exceptionally virulent; the death rate from flu and its complications was higher than last year's. There were other peculiarities: the epidemic had struck four times as hard in Texas (81,860 cases) as anywhere else, had followed a comparatively flu-less winter (the season's total-239,637 cases-was less than half that in the 1945-46 epidemic...