Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than 24 hours, the hurricane winds flailed nearly a fourth of the Florida peninsula, from Fort Lauderdale north to Melbourne and inland to the deep Everglades, the rich mucklands of Lake Okeechobee. The damage was tremendous ($40 million, according to one estimate), but the only fatality was a boy who drowned off Miami trying to save his sailboat...
...crop Aroostookians agreed to cut their acreage by one-fourth-though the Department of Agriculture insists that farmers are growing almost as many spuds, on less land, by planting the rows a little closer together and piling on the DDT and fertilizer. Aroostookians had themselves persuaded Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan to cut the support price from 90% to 60%, they say. But the House has put it back up to 90%. The big potato grab wasn't over...
...Russians, Clark finds, have achieved only one-fourth the productivity of Britain, two-fifths that of France. Russia is in a class with such economically backward countries as Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Brazil and Turkey. It leads India, which produces only half as much per man-hour as Russia, and China, whose productivity rate was only one-fourth of the U.S.S.R...
...ride up Broadway. At City Hall, Mayor William O'Dwyer handed him a certificate for "distinguished and exceptional public service." The guest of honor made a little speech thanking folks for turning out "to see the old man of baseball." Said Connie, whose A's are in fourth place but who opens spring training every season by assuring his players they can win the pennant: "I fully intend to manage the Athletics next year...
...Techniques. This week, the Workshop wound up its fourth annual month-long session in Chicago. Along with smaller subsidiary workshops held throughout the country, it is the answer of the Protestant Radio Commission to the problem of putting radio to work for religion. Through the workshops have gone the leaders of most U.S. denominational radio committees...