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Word: fractionalism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of their locker-bulging growth, frozen-food companies still have plenty of room in which to expand. Only 13.4% of U.S. families now drink frozen orange juice regularly; frozen vegetables amount to only a fraction of the total market. Optimistic frozen-food men think that if grocers would increase their freezer space they could "just about kill the fresh vegetable market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Cold Proposition | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

Vice-President Reynolds said yesterday that the final expenses would be within a fraction of one percent of that figure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fund Raising Lags, But Bills Are Paid | 10/6/1950 | See Source »

Jane Wyman in a blonde wig also realizes only a fraction of the pathetic character she plays. Actors Kennedy and Douglas give polished performances, but they swim against the tide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 2, 1950 | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

Much of the bomb's energy is released as radiation- heat and light, which shoot out from the fire ball a fraction of a second after the explosion. Five miles away, the light glares as brightly as 100 suns; up to half a mile the heat waves sear everything directly in their path. Then, too, comes the flood of gamma rays (nuclear X rays). Trapped at first within the fire ball, these deadly rays burst forth a fraction of a second after the bomb explodes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC ABCs | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...newly purchased stocks. Prices dropped. Hardest hit by the new selling wave were the stocks of television companies; they tumbled as much as 4½ points. In two jittery hours, the blue-chip Dow-Jones industrial index also dropped 2.39 points to 208.59, wiping out all but a small fraction of its earlier gain. As this week's trading began, television stocks again dropped as much as 4¼ points on fears that war might curtail production of TV sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Hair Trigger | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

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