Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most moral or circumspect area of the world: the divorce rate was still staggeringly high, marijuana-smoking was enjoying a minor and furtive popularity, and shiny new automobiles crashed at high speeds with noisy regularity. But nobody seized upon this as evidence that man was finding new freedoms. The trend in manners & morals was in the other direction. The U.S. people seemed to be looking for values they had dropped in their long and precipitous scramble toward larger horizons...
...daily life of the University. But the strongest argument for it is not its mere utility but rather the fact that its location would tend to make it a daily reminder of the debt owed to the dead by succeeding generations. As a utility an activities center might not rate as high a priority as would some other urgent needs of the University. Moreover, emphasis on utility might suggest that the emotions inspired by the desire for a memorial were being exploited as the easiest way of raising money...
...hour, possibly $25 or even $50. At five times a week for 100 weeks (an analysis can easily go on that long), the total cost may run to $5,000 or more. At the Menninger Foundation, the minimum charge (for the 65 hospitalized patients) is a flat-rate $650 a month; special treatments like psychoanalysis cost extra. The mass of mentally ill, in their lives of quiet and not-so-quiet desperation, have nowhere to go but the state institutions. Some of these are good, some not much better than Hogarth's 18th Century Bedlam, but few of them...
...rate of energy-release, said Commissioner Strauss, could not be controlled, but would decrease steadily according to the "half-life" of the radioactive material. But such a "storage battery" might have one big advantage. It would not give off, necessarily, the dangerous neutrons and penetrating gamma rays which leak from atomic piles. Some active isotopes emit only radiations that can be stopped by comparatively thin shielding. There might be no deadly byproducts, either, to endanger the neighborhood...
Frenchmen's Progress. France had progress to report in motorcar building. Production had already caught up with the prewar levels (in April and June it shot up to 106% of the prewar rate, fell below it in July and August because of workers' vacations). In 1948's first half, the French industry had exported 57% of its total passenger-car production and 14% of all commercial cars, to ring up a whopping $144 million in foreign sales. In September, France's nationalized Renault plant had more U.S. orders (3,200) than it could fill (it shipped...