Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said, however, that it was practically impossible to prevent all epidemics and declared that the incidence rate in the Harvard dining halls was much lower than that in any Boston or Cambridge restaurant with which he was acquainted...
...kind of public trust-arranged for Klock to give Robert a special, intensive summer course in chemistry. They brought their lunches to the laboratory. While Klock brewed strong tea in beakers over a Bunsen burner, Rbbert turned out "a bushel of work" that never failed to rate the coveted Klock rubber stamp: "OK-AK." In six weeks, Robert completed a year's course. Says Klock: "He was so brilliant that no teacher would have been skillful enough to prevent him from getting an education." Robert got his introduction to the atomic theory ("A very exciting experience . . . beautiful, wonderful regularities...
...singers have to don blackface to play Aïda and her father Amonasro, King of the Ethiopians. Last week, for its first production of Verdi's masterpiece, Manhattan's City Opera Company didn't have to bother: there were two first-rate Negro singers in the company...
...surprise was the spectacular comeback of the railroads. Thanks to rate boosts which were beginning to show their full effects, railroads, notably in the East, were having their best peacetime year since 1929. For the first nine months of the year, the New York Central netted $13.1 million, compared with less than $452,000 in the same period last year. The Baltimore & Ohio was up about 200% (to $16.5 million), the Erie 210% (to $9.7 million). The Pennsylvania, which lost more than $7,000,000 in the first nine months last year, made the best gain: it showed...
...industry had reason to be proud. It had boosted its prewar sales rate of $270 million to $900 million last year, in 1948 expects to gross $1 billion for the first time in its history. The soaring wages of office help, plus the growing complexity of keeping tax, payroll deductions and other records, were driving U.S. offices to mechanize as fast as possible...