Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scattered before an unappreciative student body by the College are not valueless even though they remain unfilled. If was discovered by a perusal of the current Treasurer's Report. The annual expenditure for these embryouie manuscripts totals in the College proper $1,262.53. The cost per volume and the ratio of book usage per scholar could not be ascertained although the inquiring agent was assured that the student whose inroads would earn him the title of a dollar-a-year man is rare...
According to Professor Wilson's statement, the book reveals the ratio of blacks and whites in Africa as four to one and demonstrates the possibility of future conflicts between the races as the pressure of European immigration increases. All available official documents in South Africa, the Belgian Congo, Nigeria, and the Gold Coast have been studied by Mr. Buell in the course of his investigation...
...Congressional districts of most states are anachronistic. Instead of redistricting themselves as their populations have grown, the States have been allowed, since the reapportionment of 1842, to elect new Representatives allotted to them "at large," i. e. by statewide instead of district vote. The present ratio of representation is one Representative to every 211,877 citizens. A congressman-at-large acquires a certain prestige from winning a statewide election; but, in Congress, he or she has no special position...
Chicago thugs became fewer or less successful in comparison with 1926 records. The rate decreased from 16.7 to 13.13. New York (with a rate of 6.1) was better than Philadelphia, whose ratio was 8.4. Boston's score was almost exemplary...
...single ownership, the Lancaster Newspapers, Inc. This corporation, forthwith, put on sale at par a 6% bond issue to the amount of $600,006, pointed out that in 1927 the three newspapers earned $121,978 or 3.38 times the annual interest requirement of the new bond issue. A ratio of 3.38 between earnings and interest charges would once have been thought barely adequate to induce people to loan money to a manufacturing concern which had great brick & mortar assets. That such a ratio was deemed sufficient to get money for newspapers indicated that bankers now rate...