Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happiest poking about his own stacks, Jacobs didn't think New Orleans read enough. In 1946, he found, only about 43,000 citizens in a city of 600,000 held library cards. He felt ashamed every time he was reminded that Louisiana had the highest illiteracy rate...
...sometimes a bargain rate of $15), testimony showed, Dr. Koch sells a two-cubic-centimeter ampoule of a drug he calls "glyoxylide." Until the law began reading them, the labels promised cures for "cancer, allergy, and infection." Food & Drug accuses him of claiming to cure "practically all human ills, including . . . tuberculosis." Glyoxylide, according to Dr. Koch, is the "internal anhydride" of glyoxylic acid. Chemists know all about glyoxylic acid, but they never heard of anybody having isolated its internal anhydride. Food & Drug Attorney William W. Goodrich said Government chemists could find nothing in it but distilled water, called...
...sweltering Nanking with his answer-a program of fiscal reform to combat runaway inflation. China would have a new dollar, called the gold yuan, backed by $200 million worth of gold and silver and U.S. dollars. The fantastically depreciated old Chinese dollars must be traded in, at the rate of 12 million old for one new. The government pledged itself not to print more than 2 billion of the new yuans, and to back them up by a stern clean-up of speculators, hoarders and black marketeers...
...Muny has tried to put on grand opera only four times, and with little success. Instead, it offers a first-rate production of light opera and musical comedy-with first-rate casts. Some summer-opera alumni: Irene Dunne, Gary Grant (he was then Archie Leach), Allan Jones...
...bloom off the boom? The Department of Commerce last week saw some signs of it. In the first six months of 1948, said the Department's monthly Survey of Current Business, "the rate of advance was probably the slowest for any six-months period since the postwar up trend began, with fewer industries reporting gains in output and more reporting downward adjustments...