Word: fraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comfortably filled house. He committed the fatal dramatic error of allowing his audience to stare at him for two hours while preliminary speakers exhausted them and he himself grew more nervous by the minute. When his time finally came he was obliged to omit all but a fraction of his prepared address. He offered no program of organization...
...betimes at 7 a. m.. Their Majesties had time before the State Processions began at 10 a. m. to get through only a fraction of the mountains of congratulations which poured in on the 25th anniversary of their accession. Only one of these messages made world news, that from Adolf Hitler: "Cordial wishes . . . warm sympathy . . . benediction for the entire world." This Herr Hitler signed modestly not with his present title Realmleader-more grandiose than Emperor- but merely with his subsidiary title Chancellor...
From the first Mr. Reno ran into bad showman's luck. When he called his followers to order in the open air amphitheatre of the Iowa State Fair Grounds, they equaled only a fraction of the 18,000 people who were in Des Moines that day to see the 26th annual Drake Relays The sky was dark and a chill April wind whistling past the microphones moaned like muted Bronx cheers through the amplifiers. Gone was Milo Reno's oldtime fire. He read his speech in a hurried monotone, anxious to get through before Huey Long...
Under the Securities & Exchange Act every U. S. corporation seeking permanent listing on a registered stock exchange must report the salaries of its principal officers, together with the common stock holdings of each in the company. As the deadline for security registration is not until July 1, only a fraction of U. S. industry had, up to last week, taken the cold water plunge and made their reports to Washington. The salaries of executives of some corporations which have filed, their stock ownership and the current market value of their shares follow...
...Detroit, to the House Labor Committee last week, or the nation's automobile workers will walk out. The Committee was not impressed. As the results of employes' elections held by the Automobile Labor Board showed, the A. F. of L.. can command only a minor fraction of automobile workers (TIME, Feb. 25). Realistic Laborites know that at most they can call out some makers of parts, perhaps thus cripple production lines...