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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trip around the East, had discovered that people "had an abiding faith in the soundness of our business economy." Last winter's decline of U.S. business had been interrupted. Manufacturers' orders for May and June had gone up 8%; job layoffs had dropped to their lowest rate since last November; the cost of living also dropped, if only an imperceptible...
According to Clark's analysis, whatever industrial progress Russia has made has been largely offset by agricultural stagnation. Soviet productivity, rated in 1900 at .15 IUs (15? worth of goods per man-hour, at U.S. 1925-34 prices), dropped to .10 after the land reforms of 1918-19; it rose to .16 in 1927-28, but forced collectivization of farms in 1928-33 pulled the level down to .12. No Soviet statistics for the war years are available, but by 1947 Soviet productivity had climbed back to .14 IUs, just under the 1900 level. The U.S., on the other...
With estimated reserves of 300 million barrels, the Redwater field already has 135 producing wells; new wells are being completed at the rate of 45 a month. Dozens of oil companies are in the field, the largest, Imperial Oil Ltd. of Canada, which is spending $500,000 on workers' housing alone...
...cannot digest fats and so do not get a natural supply of the vitamins (A, D, K and E) found in butterfat. To make up for this, some hospitals give them the vitamins, especially A, in water. Hospitals which use this treatment, the Bostonians reported, have a higher R.L.F. rate than others...
Direct comparisons in the size of different church bodies is misleading because of the widely varying methods of compiling membership: some include all persons in the cultural, racial or nationality group served, some include baptized babies, others rate only adults as members. But the biggest percentage gain over 1947 was reported by the 1,872,049-member Disciples of Christ, with 9%. Next came the Northern Presbyterians, with 4.2%, and the Southern Presbyterians, with 3.9%. The Roman Catholics ranked seventh in percentage of increase, with 3.1%, while the Protestant Episcopal Church gained...