Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said he: "Our future prosperity [depends upon] an intensification of technological progress . . . increasing productivity [and] a constantly broadening distribution of purchasing power by an ever-improving ratio of prices to wages [i.e., higher wages or lower prices]. Unless the buying power of the masses, whose wants create markets, is progressively expanding, business will have to be content with a virtually static situation...
...Winthrop House talk resolved into a discussion as to which institution has a more satisfactory method of turning out better citizens. Cadet Robert G. Gard admitted, "We have no electives at West Point--we're aiming toward a single definite goal--soldier and citizen." There is a 60-40 ratio of scientific to cultural subjects in the Military Academy today, added Cadet Joseph B. Love...
Attendant Harvards, enjoying a happy one to one ratio, felt that the fall term had really begun as they danced to the official PBH victoria, quaffed the famous PBH punch, and lounged with their partners on the luxurious PBH couches...
Savants say that the unprecedented even ratio was caused by the Frozh disillusionment at the Radcliffe Freshman Dance last Saturday. The boy-girl ratio then was 15 to one, in the classic tradition of this encounter. Also, this tea-dance was not as well advertised as usual...
...Canadian"; his phrase is "French-speaking Canadians." But wise Politician St. Laurent knows that French-speaking Canada can not be brushed off with symbols and phrases. He has been methodically building up French Canadian representation in the civil service, where it had fallen well below the 2-to-1 ratio of Canada's English-French population...