Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year's 125 h.p. V8, the new Mercury has a completely redesigned V8, turning up 161 h.p., that engineers have been working on for five years and have tested for thousands of hours. It includes such features as overhead valves, a four-barrel carburetor, and a compression ratio boosted from 7.2-1 to 7.5-1. The car's performance: 16 to 20 miles to the gal lon and a top speed of more than 100 m.p.h...
Casberg said that the present ratio of 25 percent regular Army medical officers to 75 percent reservists should be reversed to give the services the sustained medical programs they need. The new plan of scholarships would also include dentists, nurses, and to a certain extent, veterinarians...
...about 1½% more than the going rate on comparable securities. Moreover, to compensate for fears that owners might simply lose their property all over again should the Labor Party get reelected, the government provided that "gilt edges" (government bonds) may be traded for the steel shares at a ratio greater than their market value...
...much as possible we admit a much higher proportion of qualified students from the outlying area." Ireland frankly admits that he would like to have more Western applications--although he personally feels that currently no matter how many applications Columbia receives, it will stick to its ideal three part ratio: one third of the students from the metropolitan area, one third of the students from within a 50 mile radius, and one third from the rest of the United States. This ratio, however, is right now more an ideal one than a working one, for in the present freshman class...
...manufacturers'] opportunity to have their goods admitted into the U.S. I think every shipload of consumers' goods that comes to these shores from Germany, Japan, India, Italy or elsewhere is going to lay idle a corresponding number of American workmen and affect American business in the same ratio...