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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expecting the natural attrition rate to leave a few rooms vacant during the coming term, Watson has a long-range plan whereby forced commuters in June may move into College halls for a couple of months at least. At present, there are 300 students living within the 45-minute range...
Meanwhile each governor announced that he expected to get paid at the rate of $12,000 a year. Each appointed state officers. Hummon's had the edge, since they were confirmed by the state senate. But the processes of government began to succumb to a sort of galloping schizophrenia. The 200 Georgia banks which handle state money didn't know which governor to recognize; and one-the Fulton National Bank of Atlanta-prepared to institute legal action to find out who was really...
Neither the White Paper nor any other British announcement reported the gloomiest fact of all: the rate at which Britain is using up her medicine, the U.S. and Canadian loans. The $3,750,000,000 U.S. loan is being spent at the rate of $120,000,000 a month; at that pace it will not last beyond 1948. The $1,250,000,000 Canadian credit is being spent at the rate of $50,000,000 a month; at that pace it will be exhausted by March 1948. (The rate of expenditure was not specified in the loan agreements, but, unofficially...
China needs at least 200,000 doctors, and has fewer than 12,000-one doctor for every 37,500 people (the U.S. has one for 1,200). Ravaged by tuberculosis, malaria, cholera, kala azar (a deadly parasitic disease), typhus, plague, venereal disease, China has a death rate estimated at three to four times that ofthe U.S. (In Shanghai, a sixth of the population have T.B.; an eighth,venereal diseases.) Among the nation's major postwar medical problems: 32,000,000 opium addicts...
...Young persists in calling the Morgan crowd, although they have no direct connection with the bank, he snorted:'"If they start another fight they ought to have their heads examined. If I can't get along with these fellows this time, I'll make a twentieth-rate bank out of the Morgan bank...