Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...these days an odd lead may bring unexpected results. The real beauty of the crime is that three small Sheets of paper--the records of all the money stolen--were carefully removed from a notebook and carried away by the leader of the wealthy seven. At any rate, as long as the investigation goes on, racketeers will be watched, the criminal exodus from Boston will continue, and the city will remain "off limits" to the gangs of the nation. Perhaps this is worth a million...
...past 100 years-ever since Lister introduced antiseptic methods and Semmelweis showed how to check the spread of childbed fever. The Journal of the American Medical Association reported last week that in 1949 the U.S. set a proud record by becoming the first large nation with a maternal death rate of less than one per 1,000 live births. In 1948 the rate was 1.2, and in 1933 (before the sulfas and antibiotics...
...might well be turning out $300 billion worth of goods and services, as against the January 1950 level of $253.8 billion. But the U.S. economy was growing faster than even the President dreamed. Last week the Commerce Department reported that the gross national product had soared to an annual rate of $284.3 billion in the third quarter...
...Treasury announced a new $8 billion issue of five-year notes at 1¼%, or ¼% higher than the rate on its last big long-term issue last August (TIME, Sept. 4). Since the rate on Government bonds largely determines what private interest rates will be, the prospect was that all borrowers would soon find themselves paying a little more for new loans...
...Minor Concerto a family affair. Famed French Pianist Robert Casadesus (rhymes with has a canoe) first broached the idea of playing the concerto with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony to Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos last spring. Mitropoulos was "enthused." He knew that Robert's wife Gaby, a first-rate pianist in her own right who often performs two-piano works with her husband, would play one of the pianos. The third pianist, Casadesus announced with pride, would be his son Jean, of course...