Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rate, many of us will dance at the wake when our beloved bells tell their won death-knell. Mource Freedman...
...speech broadcast from Manhattan, General Clay supplied more facts & figures to explain his confidence. In the four months since the Allied currency reform was put into effect, he reported, the total production of Western Germany had risen a staggering 35%. Steel production was up from an annual rate of 2,500,000 to 7,000,000 tons; coal, from 275,000 tons to more than 300,000 tons a day. Said Clay: "Everywhere labor and management have new hope, and soon Germany's recovery will be felt in filling the trade vacuum which has existed in Western Europe...
Machines for Herr Donath. What is left of German industry is working full blast. Production has nearly doubled in a year, is now at 70% of the 1936 level. Coal output has climbed to over 300,000 tons a day. Steel production has risen to a rate of 7,000,000 tons a year...
Portrait of Humility. Unexpectedly, however, this shrewd and seasoned work is very nearly a first-rate novel. It becomes so, not by virtue of Maugham's mastery of form, great as it is, or his humor, of which too much has been made, nor his skepticism, which sometimes grows wearisome. It is distinguished for its portrait of Bishop Blasco de Valero. The devout prelate, self-sacrificing, presiding with terrible humility and conscientiousness over the trials of heretics, is a masterly portrait, equal to Maugham's best, and belonging well up in the gallery of modern fiction...
...Crimson's improved ball-handling --one of the most promising aspects of the victory--may have looked better because the backs were less hurried than usual. At any rate, they made less mistakes and, although not using even one single-wing pitchout, appeared nearer the finesse for which Coach Art Valpey has been working...