Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jobless ratio rose because unemployment did not go down as much as it should have, considering seasonal factors. Actually, much of the dip in the unemployment total came from students who gave up looking for summer jobs-a move that was discounted by seasonally adjusted figures. But the hard core of unemployed adults over 25 held at 3,241,000, close to the high June-July level...
...engines to a total of 850 h.p., Thompson and his buddy, Fred Voigt, added a magneto to each for hot-spark firing (standard ignition gradually weakens as engine speed increases), lengthened the piston strokes by five-eighths of an inch, rebored the cylinders and boosted the compression ratio from 8 to 1 to 12 to 1. At the heart of the retooled engines were specially ground camshafts that let the engines wind up to 5,800 r.p.m...
Canada sells Ireland about $10 million worth of goods annually. Ireland, in turn, sold Canada only $415,000 worth of chocolate, wool, textiles and glassware in 1956; last year Irish trade worked up to $1,200,000. but the imbalance was still at a ratio of about 8 to 1. And Ireland is only one of many. Of the 125 entities with which Canada trades, no fewer than 86 have an unfavorable Canadian trade balance. Among the more spectacular: Bermuda (purchases: $3,000,000. sales: $248,000), Union of South Africa (purchases: $48.4 million, sales: $6,800,000). The Netherlands...
Cactus-grey Cananea Ranch escaped land reform until last week because it is unlit for farming; arid most of the year, it is used for grazing at the ratio of ten acres per head of cattle. Reformer Cárdenas himself said it should never be divided, and even President Ruiz Cortines did not plan to expropriate. He negotiated first to buy the ranch for $2,160,000. But when hassles among the Greene heirs threatened to delay the closing for years, the President dispatched the Agriculture Minister with an expropriation decree and ended the matter with a few legalisms...
...CAPITA DEBT in U.S. is now $4,310, has climbed 24% in last five years to "almost unbelievably large" total of $750 billion, says Chase Manhattan Bank. Yet debt is only 1.7 times the value of gross national product-no more, no less than average ratio since...