Word: trended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public-health workers pored over their figures last week, trying to decide how bad the 1954 polio epidemic would be. Polio strikes are so variable (not only from year to year, but between regions of the U.S. and even between adjoining states) that the experts could see no overall trend, and the year's peak for the disease outbreaks may still be ahead. This much was certain: in 1954 the reported cases have totaled 12,699-7% less than the comparable period last year, but 4% more than the period's average for the last five years...
Continuing a recent trend, the northeastern states showed heartening declines in polio case rates (see map). In the southeast, Florida stood out as a plague spot. California's total was boosted by the local epidemic in Los Angeles. In sparsely populated states, relatively few cases justified an epidemic rating-e.g., Wyoming with 98 and Nevada with 60. Most hopeful factor in the situation was the absence of severe polio outbreaks in most of the Middle West, which had been hard hit for several years. For the U.S. as a whole, statisticians figured that an individual's chance...
TARIFF INCREASES on lead and zinc, recommended by the Tariff Commission, were rejected by President Eisenhower, who thereby spiked fears that his watch-tariff boost (TIME, Aug. 9) indicated a protectionist trend. To bolster U.S. mining, Ike announced a sharply increased stockpiling program for lead and zinc...
...week four departments-State, Defense, Treasury and Commerce-and two agencies-the Foreign Operations Administration and the President's Council of Economic Advisers-were set to looking for solutions. Present diagnosis: Japan is in no danger of imminent economic collapse, but collapse will surely come if the present trend goes...
...announcement that Brazil's minimum export price would go up from 53? to 87? a lb. on July 1, halted a downward price trend that had begun in April...