Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steep rise does not continue long. The death rate goes on dropping, as better medical services become available; but the birth rate drops too, and the curve of population increase levels off. In some cases the population actually declines. Nearly every industrialized nation has passed through these stages. Industrial Britain's population rate curve resembles strikingly the curve of industrial Japan (see map). Britain has reached, and Japan has almost reached, a stable population level...
...wide spread between present food production and potential production, even in China and India, is vitally significant (and hopeful). Both great nations, in spite of civil disturbances, are beginning to industrialize. When their populations rise, following the classic curve, they can probably raise enough food to keep their people supplied until the curve begins to flatten out normally...
Jack and Jill* had earned its birthday party, and the Post's plug. Curtis Publishing Co., which launched Jack and Jill as an experiment, then withdrew it from the newsstands during the war to save paper, had watched its mail circulation rise to nearly 500,000 (including 220 in Braille). Beginning with the anniversary issue, Jack and Jill will be back on the newsstands...
Radiomakers, who had seen sales plummet, were saved-and then some-by television. Typical example: on a sales rise of 41%, Philco boosted its earnings 51% to $2.4 million...
...many cases to new highs. Like Republic Steel a week earlier, Bethlehem reported the best quarterly net in its history; it was up 121% to $22.5 million. U.S. Steel, which made news chiefly by not declaring an extra dividend (which Wall Street had hoped for), trailed with a rise of 20% to $34.5 million. But Big Steel's net did not tell the whole story. Because its depreciation reserves "were not sufficient to cover the cost" of replacing property at current high prices, the company had put aside an extra $13.5 million. Without this set aside, the profit increase...