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Reason for this reassuring ratio is that no other industry spends nearly so much time or money playing it safe. The planes themselves are built to such exacting standards that any big multiengined plane can easily climb away from the ground with one engine out, cruise on even less power, and land safely-as a Pan Am 707 did last year-with half a wing burned away. If private cars were serviced as intensely as commercial planes, each driver would need three full-time mechanics, and his auto would be fully inspected before every trip, however short. As for pilots...
Bergthold said he did not feel the draft was a factor in the increase of applications. He noted that applications for the Corps have not increased across the country--just at Harvard and Berkeley--and that the male-female ratio of 60-40 has remained the same...
...Information Theory and Esthetic Perception, the exposition of this idea requires 45 pages. The ratio of verbiage to original thought in the rest of the book is vastly higher. Moles, like many before him, has failed to see that a relabelling of old problems does not necessarily increase our knowledge or understanding of them...
...many of them are talking about cracking the elusive 1,000 mark on the Dow before long. One prime reason is that the blue chips are conservatively priced, selling at little more than 16 times the estimated per-share earnings for 1966-lower even than the 17-to-l ratio at the bottom of the 1962 market break. U.S. investors for 20 years have ridden one long bull market, with only slight or brief interruptions, and nobody who believes in the, long-term growth of the nation's economy is ready to say that the party is over...
...population growth peaks at middle mortality where only five or six sons are needed. At this point, the couple would be producing close to the maximum number of children and the ratio of birth rate to death rate will be highest at this level...