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Word: fractionating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extra 3% will be asked in the Every-Member-Canvass pledges for 1949. The program will cost about $15,000 a week, over $11,000 of it for radio time at regular commercial rates. Musicians, technicians and minor actors will receive regular rates; the stars have volunteered for a fraction of their usual fees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Spiritual Foundations | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...Called the GOP anti-inflation bill a "tiny fraction" of what was needed, but signed it anyway. It authorizes controls on installment buying and increased bank reserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mostly Politics | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...Tropic of Capricorn exhibited less dirt-and less talent. Miller overwrote for the sheer sake of verbosity; he made hyperbole into a principle of composition. Everything he described was either incredibly glorious or incredibly distasteful. On a visit to Greece he felt "a stillness so intense that for a fraction of a second I heard the great heart of the world beat. . ." Revisiting the cities of America he found "a vast, unorganized lunatic asylum . . . the most horrible place on God's earth." Critic Alfred Kazin once said of him: "Is there anything more American than the picture of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last Expatriate | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...first report on the state of the nation last week, new Premier Wong Wen-hao said little that the Legislative Yuan did not know already. The Chinese Reds held all but a fraction of Manchuria. They were straining the Nationalist lines in North China. Some industry was already moving southward; more might soon have to go. Dr. Wong likened it to the great exodus of 1937-39, when Chinese factories were moved to the interior ahead of the Japs. But he promised: "Even though we are compelled to shift our center to South China ... we shall come back and drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Sick Cities | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...radio announcements, put the Dewey message on some 150 billboards. Stassen put two admen to work figuring the cost of the advertising; they estimated it at $140,000. Stassen charged that Dewey spent a quarter of a million on the Oregon campaign. Dewey said it was only a "tiny fraction" of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: As the Dust Cleared | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

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