Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy who had come to a realization of the importance of air power, Carl Vinson was not arguing against the air. He simply wanted more planes for the Navy's air arm. The bill, he said, pointing an accusing finger at Mahon, would put the replacement rate for aircraft so low that the Navy would be down to 4,000 planes within six years. Cried he: "They are stagnating the Navy air arm and letting the naval operating air force die on the vine . . ." Vinson's quarrel was not with Mahon but with President Truman and the Budget...
...hours) and fly at least 10,000 tons of food, coal and other supplies into Berlin in one day. The crews flew as they had never flown before. The four-engined C-545 and twin-engined R.A.F. Dakotas roared into Tempelhof, Tegel and Gatow airfields at the rate of one a minute. Twenty-four hours and 1,398 trips later, they paused to tot up the score. They had gone way over the top, had flown in 12,940 tons. That was equivalent to the load 22 freight trains might have carried-more than Berlin's West sectors even...
Only three months ago, a U.S. dollar would fetch 530 French francs on the black market. Last week, the going rate was down to 330, about the same as the official exchange rate offered to tourists at any bank or hotel. This remarkable strengthening of the French franc was another indication that France's economy, fortified by ERP, was healthier than it had been at any time since...
Beyond the bare requirements there are drawbacks. There are a few really topnotch lecturers, and a high proportion of good scholars--but the two don't usually match; and there is a third category of men who don't rate high in either respect...
While not so lively or lightly spun as its predecessor, Herself Surprised (TIME, Sept. 20), To Be a Pilgrim has a vibrant life. Together, the two novels form part of a first-rate trilogy covering 20th-century English manners & morals in a half-serious, half-picaresque vein; the last and best of the three, The Horse's Mouth, has yet to be published...