Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roosevelt thought it could be arranged. On the question of whether Roosevelt had discussed any of these matters with Chiang Kaishek, Sherwood is confusing; he first reports yes on Dairen, later no. At any rate, the conferees discussed whether Chiang Kai-shek should be told...
General practitioners generally get the short end of the stick, in pay and prestige. They also have shorter lives. The mortality rate of specialists is 30% lower than theirs, two Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. statisticians reported last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Looking for reasons, the statisticians guessed that specialists make more money, can afford longer vacations and get better medical care...
According to these statistics, the most long-lived specialists are pathologists. Shortest (at nine-tenths of the general practitioners' rate): dermatologists, who have a high death rate from cancer and leukemia, possibly the result of continual exposure to X rays. Specialists in tuberculosis also have a bad rate, probably because they often start off with the disease...
...plane had shown on Middle Scope, whose operator picked up: "Decrease rate of descent to 400 and maintain it constant . . . Lower your landing gear ..." Then Final Scope took over: "Change course to three four eight degrees. You're high on the glide path . . . Level off. Steady . . . You're on the glide path...
...demand for oil at a peak, the company was booming as never before. For five consecutive months, it has grossed more than $1,000,000 a month. With a second-quarter net of $1,143,200, Lane-Wells was earning around $6 a share, about four times its prewar rate...