Word: ratings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...step-up in the automatic annual hourly wage rate increase (now 2.5%) to a "noninflationary" 3.9% per year...
...against that frame of mind that Houston's citizens were up in arms last week. For Houston (pop. 901,922), with its booming pace and blooming wealth, has a blemish on its shiny pride: in 1957 it had the highest per capita murder rate in the whole country-about 15 per 100,000, or a total of 136 for the year.* What makes Houston so special? Says one cop simply: "Houston is a city of murder without motive...
...York City (pop. about 7,700,000) recorded 315 murders in 1956, a rate of four...
...House listened with hushed respect. "I am not here to criticize my colleagues or indeed my political opponents," he went on. As between the bank rate that he had raised to the highest level (7%) in 37 years and the physical controls that Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell advocates to check inflation, he confessed: "Neither of these works very well." Taxation, he said, "has already reached a point where I should think most men would admit it is inflationary in its effect...
...induced to make house calls (though they discourage them for the same reasons as M.D.s), charge $7 to $15. The little black bags they carry contain the same gadgets and remedies as those of their M.D. colleagues. In some areas, owners can get medical insurance for their pets (average rate, $15 a year). But in Kansas City last week, one plan suspended benefits: pets, like their owners, get expensive illnesses oftener when it's 'on the insurance...