Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tsaldaris-Venizelos coalition-let each be Premier for three months, in rotation. Many things are possible in Greek politics, but not that. The King said no; instead, without telling Tsaldaris, he decided to give the premiership to War Minister Panayotis Kanellopoulos, one of Greece's few first-rate administrators. U.S. officials were delighted with the King's choice...
...Herman Niels Bundesen, once dragged in Al Capone's girl friend for a blood test. He still tacks up syphilis quarantine signs himself, with the butt of a pistol, on any tavern which refuses to send its bar girls in for tests. Pointing to Chicago's syphilis rate, which has dropped 45% against a national drop of 37%, Bundesen boldly boasts: "Chicago is the safest place in the world today to have intercourse." But, he adds: "We must stay in the ring and slug it out. There is no rest between rounds when the enemy is syphilis...
...report is also concerned with relative reproduction trends of various groups within the population. It accepts evidence that intelligence is inherited. Consequently it views with some alarm the fact that less intelligent families reproduce at a higher rate than more intelligent families. To combat this trend it proposes two forms of government action: 1) using the National Health Service to give more birth control information to the lower income groups, and 2) tax exemptions and other incentives to encourage the professional classes to have more children...
...taken Lustron a long time to get all the machinery and steel it needed to produce houses in the huge war-surplus Curtiss-Wright plant in Columbus. Last February, Lustron thought it had ironed out the kinks and announced production of 25 houses a day, predicted a rate of 100 by July...
...hulking (6 ft. 3½ in.), cocky President Stan Weiss, the decision seemed like a conspiracy between the major scheduled airlines and CAB to get rid of Standard and its profitable cut-rate air coach business. Cried he: "We're going to take those so & so's into the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and try to get a stay...