Word: fractionated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Raincoats Are Enough. Biggest market is Africa, where only a fraction of the population can afford new clothes, and where self-conscious new nations like Ghana are anxious to wipe out traditional tribal nudity. Ghana last year doubled its purchase of used clothes, spent some $1,680,000 on broni waawu, mostly from the U.S., and the All-Africa Women's League, the most militant no-nakedness national organization, distributed several thousand garments free. Morocco last year imported $1,000,000 in secondhand garments. In East Africa, the political and missionary propaganda on the importance of wearing clothes...
...cover the third week in October, bring to 31,259 the number of hepatitis cases reported in the U.S. so far this year, and the year-end total is expected to fall shy only of 1954's record 50,093. Reported cases are believed to be only a fraction of the actual total; Kentucky Epidemiologist J. Clifford Todd estimates that there have been four victims in his state-with 1,628 cases, the nation's hardest hit-for every one reported. In Colorado's heavily Mexican-American counties along the Ar kansas River, the hepatitis rate...
...crude extract from this first step was purified and separated into fractions by treatment with various chemicals, and each fraction was tested for sex attractiveness. A slender glass rod was touched to the sample and brought near the antennae of a male moth held in wing clips. If he fluttered and made mating motions, the sample was adjudged to contain the sexual lure of the 500,000 martyred virgins...
...miracle of the transistor is that it can do virtually everything the vacuum tubes-for nearly 40 years the mainstay of the communications industry-could do, and do it better. It is more reliable, sturdier, and only a fraction of the tube's size. Today a full third of Bell Labs' scientists are working on the transistor and the whole new family of "solid state" electronic devices it has spawned. The transistor not only made space exploration possible; it also ushered in the new technique of miniaturization, thus made hundreds of new products possible...
...second quarter. With all the recent talk of recession, they had begun to fear that expenditures for plant and equipment might fall off later in the year. But this week, to their relief, new figures showed that expenditures are likely to run at a flat $37 billion, only a fraction below what had been earlier expected. Department-store sales also continued strong, running 4% ahead of last year for the last reported week, 2% ahead for the year...