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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fertility rate" (births per 1,000 in the child-bearing age group between 15 and 44) receded 2.3% to 116.9 during 1958's first eight months and is not likely to resume its seven-year rise, says Population Reference Bureau, until after the recession's impact on the birth rate wears...
...film, at any rate, there is little danger of confusion. Boston's Curley was a charming, slush-funding, machine-tooled rascal who, on two occasions, found himself awearing o' the stripes when he was caught in the act of fraud. Tracy's Skeffington is just about the dearest old party since Santa Claus: a combination of Robin Hood and Mother Machree. Sure and if he steals, 'tis only from the rich, and doesn't the darlin' man turn right around and give it all to the poor...
...house is unfit for music." That was just after the Met concluded its first Manhattan season, and Tenor Campanini's observation has been echoed by many a singer since. The Met has nevertheless attracted more first-rate stars than any other of the world's great opera houses. This week the house celebrates its 75th anniversary with a nostalgic birthday review (lantern slides and ancient recordings assembled by the Metropolitan Opera Guild) of some of its finest achievements. The yellow brick house was built (in 1883) at a cost of $1,732,478.71, principally as a showcase...
...economy, as measured by the gross national product, has climbed almost back to its alltime high. So Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks told the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council last week at Hot Springs, Va. On top of the fact that the gross national product rate in July-September apparently was around $440 billion, v. the recession's low of $425.8 billion in January-March, Weeks predicted that the final-quarter G.N.P. rate will hit $450 billion, v. the prerecession peak of $445.6 billion in the summer of 1957-and go even higher...
Income Up. Equally good recovery news was the fact that personal income in September rose to a seasonally adjusted rate of $357.5 billion from $356.1 billion in August. This third consecutive record-breaking month made certain that 1958 would surpass 1957. For the first nine months of 1958 personal income has run at the rate of $351.6 billion, v. a rate of only $347.5 billion in 1957. Wage and salary disbursements in September rose $40 million to a rate of $239.1 billion...