Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Veterans Administration last week added up its postwar payments to 15,200,000 World War II veterans, their heirs and dependents. The total: a skyscraping $20,975,947,214. Biggest expenditure-more than $7 billion-went for education under the G.I. bill. Pensions or compensation cost $4,502,364,093; disability and death claims, $3,694,661,437; and the "52-20" program of unemployment benefits...
...which 3,419 cases were reported) as the year's peak. Since then, the curve has been downward. But 1949 was certain to have a staggering polio toll marked against it: already 29,051 cases had been reported, and by year's end the total would be nearer...
Statisticians poring over the reports found some cold comfort. This year's total, whatever it might be, could not be compared directly with the 1916 total of 30,000 cases, because the U.S. population has increased by about half in the meantime. Also, because so many milder cases are now properly diagnosed and reported, the proportion of crippling and fatal cases is far less. (The death rate among youngsters under 15 is now one-fifteenth the rate of the 1916 mortality...
...sight for eggs. To maintain the market for shell eggs, CCC offered to buy dried eggs at $1.27 a Ib. This was such a handsome price that CCC had to buy nearly 30 million Ibs. of dried eggs. Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan is afraid the total cost may run to $200 million. Despite the enormous surplus, wholesale prices this month were the highest in a quarter century. Mourned Brannan: "The prospects for the year ahead are still more discouraging...
...bears around. Not in 17 years, in fact, has Wall Street been so full of them-if the number of short sales is any index'. The New York Stock Exchange reported that, as of Sept. 15, short sales had risen 127,581 shares in a month to a total of 2,133,700, the biggest since Aug. 4, 1932, when the total stood at 2,151,840. The bears were wrong then. Only a month before, the market had hit bottom, and was already on a five-year climb destined to total 153.18 points...