Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current year will be the lowest on record, with the possible exception of 1933." During the first six months of 1938, he added, the death rate was 10.8 per 1,000 a figure surpassed only by the 10.7 rate for the entire year of 1933. Some 60% of the total 1938 decline was due to the remarkably small death toll of pneumonia and influenza last winter. Other factors pulling down the 1938 death rate: 1) low maternal mortality, which now amounts to 4.4 per 1,000 live births, 15% less than 1937; 2) lower incidence of tuberculosis, which shows signs...
...receive 50% less money for their services than in the first group); 3) unemployed and relief groups, financed entirely by State, Federal or municipal aid, or by charity, with doctors receiving 75% less money than from the first group. Specific amounts paid to physicians would be determined by the total amount of money available...
...Obituary Note: Five shows closed in Manhattan last weekend, making a total of twelve spills out of 28 starts so far this season...
...about twelve miles up there is a rich mixture of primary rays and of secondary rays created by collisions between the primaries and air molecules. Above that height the air is so thin (i.e., molecular targets are so few) that the secondary radiation falls off. Below twelve miles the total intensity also declines because more & more of the primaries are absorbed by atmospheric resistance...
Owens-Illinois and Corning are model parents for the new company. Owens, with total assets of $87,562,251, is the world's largest bottlemaker; their chemist, Games Slayter, started perfecting fibre glass seven years ago. Corning (assets and profits secret) has specialized in technical refinements; it was to Corning that Thomas Edison went in 1878 asking for a little glass bubble in which to put his incandescent filament...