Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exporters. To maintain its transportation system Brazil in 1940 imported 1.3 million tons of coal, nine million barrels of oil and gasoline. Though approximately 70% of all shipping from the U.S. to South America's east coast is carrying coal as cargo, Brazil gets only a fraction of her needs. Tankers seldom visit her ports. No private automobiles ride the once busy streets of Rio and Sao Paulo, bus schedules have been slashed, many vital rail services are cut by half, other routes suspended. Even wood-burning steamers plowing the muddy Amazon River to Manaos are stopped: the woodcutters...
...major part of its vast machine-tool, precision-instrument and other industries had been moved beyond the Urals. So Leningrad, to produce its own guns and shells, had to depend on the remaining fraction of its industries...
Simultaneously, the Dean announced that it has been possible to place only a fraction of the Freshmen who are entering this month in the Houses. The majority of the class will be assigned to rooms in or near the Yard, but will be transferred to Houses as soon as there are places available...
...bomb to drop." Before the plane came over the 20-ft. white X on the pock-marked ground a mile from the observers, its bomb doors opened. The bomb flopped out. The men in the tower could see it, a short pencil line hanging horizontal for a fraction of a second. Then its nose jerked down as the tail fins caught...
Last week, Lawrence Ottinger, president of U.S. Plywood Corp., told stockholders that their company's "products had found their way into so many war uses that the company could not supply more than a fraction of the demand, despite substantial increases in production facilities." A few production uses are: gliders, torpedo boats, mine sweepers, cargo vessels, army landing boats, defense housing, pipe, chemical vats, shipping containers...