Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Health officials in all affected areas were worrying about epidemics. The death rate was up; it was hard to know how much. Said a Red Cross official: "The only check we really have is the number of requests we get for shrouds." In his area the demand for shrouds had doubled...
...last week, the controversy over the Nation had boiled up into a first-rate argument over freedom of the press. In the current issue of the Nation, 107 educators, lawyers, clergymen and writers, such as Reinhold Niebuhr, Sumner Welles, Publishers Palmer Hoyt, Mark Ethridge and Ralph McGill, signed "An Appeal to Reason and Conscience" demanding that the New York City board change its mind. New York City's School Superintendent William Jansen had defended the ban as "based on the long-established American tradition that religious discussions and criticism of religion have no place in the classroom...
...Bell offices have been installing the instruments at the rate of about 85 a day, all of them to go on the new University exchange. About 550 were working in students' rooms when the exchange first went into operation Saturday...
Catastrophic Effect. Another point agreed on without much fuss was that most modern art, like most art of any period, is second-rate or worse. "We have lived," said British Critic Raymond Mortimer, "[in an art age] dominated by a few men of extraordinary imaginative power, like Matisse, Picasso and Braque. Greatly as I admire them, I think their effect on their contemporaries and juniors has been catastrophic. To distort before you can represent is like trying to dance before you can walk." But, argued Mortimer, "modern painting is no more difficult to understand than modern poetry, modern music...
...employment slipped for the second consecutive month, but it was still at 60,312,000 in September, the Department of Commerce reported. The drop was caused by high school and college workers returning to school. Personal incomes were still climbing. They edged up in August to a record annual rate of $215 billion, up $2 billion over the July rate...