Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Work Done seemed to add up to mighty small potatoes. Of $5,400,000,000 which Congress had voted for Defense since May, a piddling fraction had actually been spent. An enormous job of planning had to be done first. In charge of the planning were Industrialists William S. Knudsen, Edward Stettinius Jr., some 200 high-powered colleagues on the President's National Defense Advisory Commission. Getting these talented bigwigs down to coordinated work was in itself a big, time-taking job. Up to last fortnight, most commission spark plugs always had time for an easy hour...
...reason Japan is attractive to foreign scholars: its inexpensiveness. Crowed the institute: "Favored by special steam ship rates and lower-cost accommodation, students can complete two to five years of graduate work in Tokyo at a fraction of the cost of such schooling in England or the United States." Tuition at the Government-financed Imperial Universities, whose entrance examinations are too steep for most foreign scholars, is dirt cheap: the equivalent of 27 U. S. dollars. Other universities are more expensive. What the Institute neglected to mention is that living by U. S. standards costs approximately $1,800 a year...
...planes, is $4,740,000 in hock to RFC. Of 360,979 shares offered stock holders at $16 a share (mainly to repay the loan), last week 88,248 were still un subscribed and went on public sale. The stock was quoted on the market at 15 and a fraction, but some individual syndicate members were offering wholesale blocks of it at 15, even 14, finding no takers...
...third of the novice heats, Buck Anderson '42 coasted in to hit the first drop of the checkered flag in 3:50.4 for the half-mile stretch, while in the fourth George J. Edwards '42 clipped a fraction off this time by coming home...
...increasingly apparent," he continued, "that little or no progress is being made toward the satisfactory solution of the many problems which we face today. At best, we have moved forward only a small fraction of the distance toward the goal of peace and prosperity for all. At worst, we fear the complete collapse of civilization, before the intelligent application of good will can save mankind from that catastrophe...