Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glider Crackup. Suddenly our pilot reached up, hesitated a fraction of a second, then smacked the tow release lever. With a twang like a snapped harp string, the long white towing cable vanished. The pounding thunder of air dropped to a murmur...
...their use of newsprint by 10% (TIME, Jan. 4). Reason: an imminent paper shortage. Some publishers really tried-by slashing the size and the number of features, by eliminating waste white space, by cutting out distant circulation, etc.-but many did not. Overall newsprint consumption was reduced only a fraction more than 5% through...
However much electioneering capital may be made of the fact that the Ruml plan "forgives" the rich (as well as the poor) a year's income taxes, the fact remains that taxes on all incomes over $25,000 a year comprise only a fraction of the estimated $9,275,000,000 to be forgiven. And because the war has increased most U.S. incomes, the Senate bill will net the Treasury this year an estimated $2,000,000,000 more revenue than it would receive under the old system of collecting this year's taxes on last year...
...Hoosier State's Hall of Fame. After Willkie's book began nearing the million mark in the sales column . . . Indiana has decided to accept him as a prophet at home, since he has become one to the rest of the world. His book will be the third non-fraction book since 1901 to sell over a million copies...
...France, the Burma Road was the only road into China, and imports over it were lifted to an unsatisfactory maximum of 14,000 tons in November 1941. Then it, too, was lost. Since then the air supply route "over the hump" from Assam has given China only a fraction of even the Burma Road's trickle...