Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...would be other big steps, the President made clear, as fast as the blueprints, the manpower and the administrators could be assembled and kinks straightened out. One step would be "a very rapid speedup" of military production. Salient items: five times as much aircraft production within a year (present rate: about 3,000 a year), four times as many combat vehicles, 4½ times as much electronic equipment. Taxes would be much higher. There would be a longer work week for production workers, fewer civilian goods...
Despite these hesitancies, directed not against an increased rate of mobilization, but against all-out mobilization, the services were beginning to bolt together a stronger framework for defense. Last week the Pentagon...
...billion in dollar aid had bought Britain time to work out a way of living within its income-austerely. British production had increased about 40% over 1946; the rate of dollar-spending in the first quarter of 1950 had been cut 25% from the first Marshall Plan year. Currently, U.S. stockpiling was bringing an unexpectedly large number of dollars into the sterling area, especially for tin and rubber. Britain's share of U.S. military assistance-still unspecified-would also help keep the dollar gap closed...
Although the death rate of every age group in the U.S. has been declining steadily since 1940, U.S. men are still dying off faster than women, said the National Office of Vital Statistics last week. In the last decade, the death rate for the female population decreased 13%, while the rate for males decreased only...
Divided Credit. In Denmark, where BCG has been widely used, the tuberculosis death rate has been reduced over the last two decades from 71 to 19 per 100,000 inhabitants. But socially conscious Denmark has gone further than most nations in eliminating the factors that encourage tuberculosis. In lands where all else is hopeless, BCG has been given a fairer chance to make a statistical case for itself. Throughout the crowded, war-torn areas of Europe and the East, where general health conditions are at their worst, the International Tuberculosis Campaign, jointly sponsored by several U.N. and Red Cross organizations...