Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Industry. The most spectacular rises in population have come with industrialization. The "laws" which govern it are not yet well understood, but the early stages of industrialization, in any country, seem to be associated with a moderate rise in the birth rate, a sharp fall in the death rate and a consequent jump in population...
...steep rise does not continue long. The death rate goes on dropping, as better medical services become available; but the birth rate drops too, and the curve of population increase levels off. In some cases the population actually declines. Nearly every industrialized nation has passed through these stages. Industrial Britain's population rate curve resembles strikingly the curve of industrial Japan (see map). Britain has reached, and Japan has almost reached, a stable population level...
Sterilization Bonus. Vogt suggests that the U.S. should help no country with food or anything else unless it first agrees to limit its birth rate. One method he favors: a bonus to males who allow themselves to be sterilized...
McGugan buckled on his old black helmet (he didn't rate one of the new, shiny, white ones) and hustled out on the field. He played for eight minutes, the last three because students up in the stands chanted "We want McGugan" when the coach pulled him out of the game...
...move that set the magazine industry buzzing, the Journal-impelled by a dip in circulation-cut its ad rates 5%. It offered advertisers rebates on several 1948 issues that had not delivered all the circulation expected. It was the first cut by a major magazine since the depression. Though Curtis magazines base their rates on the estimated circulation for six months ahead but do not guarantee the estimate, the Journal felt a "moral obligation" to cancel most of the 7½% rate increase that had helped make its October issue so rich (TIME...