Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major demands made by Negro leaders last week was for more Negro cops in Harlem-the ratio is 1 Negro policeman to 6 white. Ironically, the proportion of Negroes was once much higher, but civil rights leaders complained that if white police could patrol Harlem, Negro police ought to patrol white neighborhoods, and New York's civil-righteously sensitive Democratic city fathers dutifully scattered the Negro cops around the city...
COFO had wanted to maintain a 5-1 student-teacher ratio, Whaman said, but so many Negroes have enrolled that the ratio is nearer 10-1. There are 200 teachers for the 1900 pupils in the state...
There were Republicans there, too, but they were a minority. Specifically, the ratio was 7 to 10. The assembled G.O.P. delegates at the San Francisco convention numbered 1,308. The personnel sent by the television networks to cover the event numbered...
Harvard men will outnumber the Cliffies in the usual wintertime ratio of 4:1, but the rest of the summer students will even out the proportion of the sexes. Males are still expected to remain in a slight majority, however, as they have for the last several years...
...nations may well increase 15%, to 5,750,000. Since 1958, auto production has doubled in Britain and Germany, tripled in Italy. Europe still has to run hard to catch up with the U.S., where there is one car for every 2.4 people. But the car-owning ratio has risen from one for every 18 Western Europeans half a dozen years ago to one for every eleven...