Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...declined into old age, fewer & fewer new people found their way to the high, white little gallery on Manhattan's Madison Ave., called "An American Place." "I'm glad," he would say mysteriously, "that no one has been in today to disturb these pictures." Some of those who did were frightened away by the proprietor's brooding glance...
There are fewer than 500 teletypesetter perforators in the world, and none of them control such remote printings as TIME'S. TIME has seven machines and nine men to keep them operating. Most of them work a two-day, 20-hour week teletypesetting, and spend the rest of their time on allied production jobs. One has to put up at a nearby hotel on Tuesday to be on hand for late news breaks...
...winter wheat crop in U.S. history this week, the news for the world's hungry was good. Best estimates place the crop at 1.3 billion bushels, more than double any average prewar year. But the chances of starting the wheat on its way promptly are worse than ever. Fewer boxcars are available than in the worst war years. In the Texas Panhandle, farmers are already scouting around for circus tents to cover the grain on the ground until the railroads can move it. As the harvesters move north in the next month, the car shortage will become worse...
...George Marshall's priority list was the problem of Western Germany. If trade with the British and American zones can be restored, there will be more coal for France (which needs coal even more than dollars), more freight for the Dutch canals and Belgian railways, more prosperity-and fewer fire alarms-for Western Europe in general...
Asked Purist M.P. Ian Mikardo: "Will the Honorable Lady do what she can to ensure that the French is correct? Is she aware that on today's luncheon menu no fewer than four accents were missing...