Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of this, however, Hunt cited several worthwhile features of Russian education. Free schooling is offered up to the age of 45, the pupil-teacher ratio is less than 25 to 1, and up to 15 per cent of the national budget is spent on education...
...OVERSEAS TRAVELERS prefer planes to ships by 3-to-1 margin, says new Commerce Department report. Last year's ratio...
President Kimball and his executives make no bones about the fact that all this research comes high. In its 16 years Aerojet has paid only one common-stock dividend. All the rest of the profits go for research in a ratio that holds company expenditures to 30% for production and 70% for research each year. Eventually, probably by 1960 when Titan and Polaris are in production, Aerojet will pay its stockholders regular dividends. But never so much that it cannot lay a big bet on any exciting new field that opens...
...There was no consistent predisposing factor (such as head injury) as some investigators have alleged. Alcohol was not important in their own lives, but had been in many cases for their fathers, often to the point of breaking up the home. CJ The difference between the homosexuals' ratio of male-female hormone output and that of normal men used for comparison was negligible...
Retail sales continued surprisingly strong. The Census Bureau estimated April sales at $16.3 billion, and a level 2.5% over March. But the ratio of sales to inventories was still considerably higher than a year ago, which meant that businessmen will probably continue to cut their inventories until the ratio finally gets back in line...