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Remembering that large inventories collected dust in warehouses after the economy slid in 1970, businessmen are particularly chary about stockpiling more materials and supplies. The inventory-to-sales ratio for manufacturing and trade-that is, the stockpile of goods relative to one month's sales at current rates-dropped to a thin 1.53 in November v. 1.56 the month before and 1.66 in November...
Fleet for the '80s. The Soviets are developing great momentum. At present, they are outbuilding the U.S. in naval vessels by the impressive ratio of 8 to 1. In addition, major Polish and East German builders are producing merchant ships for Russia, and the Soviets have ordered others from foreign yards from Japan to The Netherlands. In the frontline, high-sea naval squadrons, some classes of ship are being replaced by more advanced designs after only eight years of operational duty. The Kresta II cruisers (see picture box, next page), whose design is much admired by U.S. naval architects...
Fred Branfman, a reporter for Dispatch News Service who lived in Laos for four years reports that in the three years before June, 1966, Laos's exports totalled $3,000,000 while imports totalled $108,000,000--an import-export ratio of 36 to 1. Recent government reports say that the ratio between 1964 and 1968 was 14 to 1. Other reports run as high...
...thirds of Americans think most of their fellow citizens, if ordered, would "shoot all the inhabitants of a Vietnamese village suspected of aiding the enemy, including old men, women and children." Such was the finding of a poll commissioned by two Harvard scholars. Unsurprisingly, then, by a ratio of better than 5 to 3, the 989 Americans interviewed thought that Lieut. William Calley Jr. should not have been brought to trial for his part in the massacre...
...anyway, 5 to 1 is an economically unlivable ratio by any financial standard today," Mann added. "Before, the Department was sustained by many intricate things which couldn't stand the test of time. We had to face up to certain realities...