Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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French devotees of le jazz hot were as distressed as hepcats who have lost their piano player. Since Liberation, they had turned to a squad of American G.I.s for music and entertainment. But Yanks in France had dwindled to fewer than 30,000 ; now the American Forces Network -the best in U.S. radio - was packing its tubes and preparing to pull the plug. To their French fans, it was a crisis of the first order...
...take-home worth while, more things at lower prices must be produced. That is up to labor more than management. Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him and all the others. Each one will receive more money but have fewer things...
...postwar rush to bring food shopping back to normal, Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson had decided that everything was so rosy that almost all restrictions could be removed. Now, in connection with the President's announcement, he was forced to concede that somehow the nation had 61,000,000 fewer bushels of wheat than he had figured...
...hands on" the $100 million needed for dried-egg imports. Then publicity-shy Sir Ben, a former cabby, meeting the press for the first time in many months, said that the world food crisis (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had made still further cuts necessary. Because India was exporting fewer ground nuts and Antarctic whaling results were disappointing, the ration of cooking fat was to be reduced to seven ounces a week (former ration: eight ounces). Because imports of fodder were reduced, there would soon be less bacon, less poultry, fewer shell eggs (present average: 2½ eggs per person a month...
Result: after 18 months, the vitamin K chewers had 60% to 90% fewer new cavities than the others. The experimenters noted with interest that vitamin K gum seemed more effective than highly publicized fluorinated drinking water (TIME, April...