Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speed-Up. Despite Citizen Washburn's opinion, Congress had its busiest week to date. The House passed Harold Knutson's tax reduction bill, thus immeasurably speeding up a final determination of the tax question. It also shouted through a cut-rate Labor-Federal Security Appropriation bill, over attempts to scuttle the U.S. Conciliation Service, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the NLRB. The House joined the Senate in extending a modified Second War Powers Act until June 30, ending Selective Service, and appropriating $9,000,000 to help Mexico fight its foot-&-mouth disease epidemic...
...death rate of Negroes is 33% higher than that of whites; the Negro infant death rate is 63% higher...
...Most of the major killers-tuberculosis, kidney disease, pneumonia-are far more prevalent among Negroes. Heart disease and cancer are the killers that cause a higher percentage of deaths among whites; but the cancer rate among Negroes is rising...
...other hand, durable-goods makers had done poorly in 1946. Now that they were reaching peak production, they were doing very well. On the basis of General Motors annual report last week Wall Streeters computed that G.M. earned $73 million in the last quarter of 1946, a rate which would pour in a record $292 million in net profits this year -if all went well. But it was the durable-goods industries which were now faced with new wage demands. And there was no guarantee that price cuts would eliminate them. Ford has cut prices-and promised further cuts...
...habit of judging other men's books seems to dry up a critic's ability to write effective fiction of his own. But not in Victor Sawdon Pritchett's case. The 14 stories in It May Never Happen are proof that a first-rate critic may also become a fine storyteller. Pritchett's reviews in London's liberal New Statesman and Nation are highbrow; they are also incisive and discriminating. Pritchett considers his story writing "an endless chewing of the cud of experience, an effort to digest; and also a desire to fill...