Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rise in new orders to whittle down fat inventories. Inventories are now about $4 billion higher than at the same time last year; manufacturers, who added $250 million a month to inventories during the first half of 1957, piled on $300 million in July. While the sales-to-inventory ratio ($1 to $1.86) stood close to the same level as twelve months ago, the lofty stocks mean that a better-than-seasonal autumn pickup in demand will be necessary to call forth a high wave of new production...
...coming to me," said Altrincham as the storm broke about his head. "I can only hope that when the dust has cleared, the furniture will have shifted a bit." As the week wore on, the letters pouring into his own mailbox gradually turned favorable to Altrincham by a ratio of three to one. Letters to the working-class Daily Mirror were four to one in his favor, and even the middle-class Daily Mail, which at first received a rush of what-a-cad letters, found the mail turning more evenly to the lord as the week went...
...ratio of men to women students is four to three this year. Of the 2870 total number, there are 1640 males and 1230 females. The total, according to latest Summer School Office statistics, is an increase of 210 students since last year...
Chiefly concerned with publicizing the objectives of the Five-Year Plan, he said, that the Pakistanians might wish the Communist threat were greater, for it seems that foreign aid from the U. S. is given in ratio to the seriousness of Communist infiltration...
...Point No. 2: The U.S., as soon as Russia and the West had ended nuclear-weapons production under strict inspection and enforcement, would join with Russia in dismantling some of its nuclear bombs and turning over the fissionable material to an international agency according to a 53-47 ratio, i.e., of every 100 lbs. of material transferred for peaceful purposes, the U.S. would provide 53 lbs., the Russians...