Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benson also had the tricky corn-hog ratio to consider. This ratio determines, in effect, whether a farmer can make more money by selling his corn or by feeding it to his hogs (it takes about 9 bu. of shelled corn to put 100 lbs. on a hog). When the price of corn is low in relation to that of hogs, it is more profitable to turn the corn into pork; that was the case through most of 1954, with the result that the 1954 fall pig crop was 16% bigger than in 1953, and the 1955 spring pig crop...
Briggs Hall placed second ("Three more years of Harvard men/ The ratio's one to ten"). Saville House sand "If someone would do pre-med with me/ I'd learn anatomy/ Harvard has the cure for you," while Whitman complained that Harvard men ". . . would rather go to Wheaten/ To find girls who put the heat...
...could not afford private schools. The many other white children of the area seem to be deliberately shunning the heavily-Negro Field school. It appears, instead, that they are choosing a school where they are in a majority, in this case the nearby Clark school, where the white-colored ratio is 2 to 1. Our objecting Southerners ease back in their chairs. "We told you so," they...
...midweek, Pollster George Gallup disclosed the results of his latest survey. It showed Dwight Eisenhower then leading Adlai Stevenson by 61% to 39%, as against a 55%-45% ratio in 1952's election. Since Democrats conceded an Eisenhower candidacy in 1956 as highly probable, the Gallup poll was merely another evidence of an already-clear political fact: that the chances of the Democratic Party for next year were poor...
...signs. Farm land prices are climbing to new records, have jumped 5% since 1954. In Chicago the Federal Reserve reported that land prices in its area were up 2% between April and July alone. Farmers' total assets are rising, currently average about $22,000 a family. And the ratio of debts to assets is dropping, has fallen to 11% v. 19% in 1940 and 21% in 1930. Most important, farm economists think the bottom of the slide has been reached for many farm prices...