Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South whites did not let Negroes handicap them in this curious competition. Both races committed practically the same number of murders. In ten Southern cities there were last year 731 killings, an average rate of 38.6 murders per 100,000. In the country's six largest communities the number was twice as great (1,513), the rate one-fourth as high...
...Largest Cities Murders Rate...
Since 1920 the Department of the Interior has been freely passing out neat permits, at the rate of about 6,000 per year, which set inquisitive oil drills a-rattling on the public domain. Above most of these drills were "wildcatters," adventurous independent prospectors, sending their small assets down the drill holes on the chance of striking a gusher...
People throughout the world last week looked and looked at pictures of "Captain Barker," the woman who long persuaded the British Army that she was Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Slight Barker, a "Mons man," a devoted husband, a first rate boxer (TIME, March...
...however, with estimated production of 208,000,000 Ibs., its estimated earnings were $10,000,000. This disproportionate increase is a result of recent rises in the price of copper. The average price received for its product in 1928 was 14.76? a pound. At the same rate of production, for every one-cent rise in copper prices earnings should increase $2,000,000. Now copper is in the neighborhood of 20? a pound. If the average for 1929 should be 19?, the earnings of Phelps Dodge would be $18,000,000. In proportion to the increased earnings dividend declarations have...