Word: fraction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three Communist papers are only a small fraction of the proletarian press which includes over 700 U. S. labor papers. Upwards of 100 of these journals belong to nationwide unions; most of the rest to local labor bodies. They have in common their deficits and share a readership of 4.000.000, for like the Catholic press, which is seen by only 40% of the 21.000,000 U. S. Catholics, the labor press does not reach the 7.000.000 organized workers of the U. S., much less the 32.000.000 unorganized workers. One reason is that most of the labor papers are poor reading...
...have defective or antiquated fire equipment or inadequate police departments in every city or community." Admitting that a naval race would raise the rate on our naval "insurance," Captain Keppler said that the increase is only relative. He pointed out that naval expenditures are only a very small fraction of the national budget...
Until last year this caused the cartel no great worry because all three non-members exported only a fraction of their production, leaving the cartel in command of an estimated 90% of the export market. With the current recession in the U. S., however, and the consequent falling off of domestic steel orders, certain U. S. makers have been dumping steel abroad, undercutting cartel prices and taking advantage of the steel hunger of nations preparing for war. For the first eleven months of 1937 U. S. iron & steel exports were 36% above 1929, 192% above 1936. Rolled steel exports amounted...
...last week the chairmen of the two biggest banks of the U. S. both saw fit to make pointed references to one poignant topic. Said Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Manhattan's Chase National Bank: "Since 1933 the volume of new issues, and especially of stocks, has been a fraction of what it ought to be, and, indeed, of what it was in our last normal financial year, 1923, or 14 years...
...popularly elected President of the Freshman class is a myth. It is impossible for any member of the class to know more than about one hundred and fifty of his classmates; and inversely only a fraction of the voters know the men for whom they are voting. The result is that the men are elected from one of two classes: either an athletic hero, or a Union Committee member with plenty of publicity behind...