Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billion a year. Eventually, the Tory projects will pay off in increased productivity. But coming on top of the nation's demand for more houses, more cars, more exports, more arms and more investments in the Commonwealth, they impose a heavy strain on an economy a fraction the size and far less flexible than that of the U.S. Result: inflation at home, waning confidence in the pound sterling abroad...
FARM MORTGAGES have soared to the highest point since 1933, with debts of $8 billion, a $500 million increase over a year ago. But property values have climbed so fast, says the Government's Farm Credit Administration, that the debt figure is only a small fraction (about 9%) of the total $90 billion value of U.S. farm real estate (in 1933 the debt was 25% of a $30.7 billion value...
...under Mexico's narrow neck, but the deposits are estimated to be immense, second only to the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast deposits. So far, the three U.S. companies have spent $10 million on plants, roads, pipelines and port facilities to tap deposits on 30,000 acres, only a fraction of their leaseholds. Mexican Gulf Sulphur Co. has built a plant with a 200,000-ton annual capacity; Pan American Sulphur Co. has put up another worth $5,000,000 with a 500,000-ton capacity; Gulf Sulphur Corp. is building a plant with a capacity of 300,000 tons...
Each year since 1948 the Winant Volunteers have sent over a carefully chosen group of college and preparatory school students to help with the work of boys' clubs in the East End of London. A workingman's family in the East End exists on a fraction of the amount spent by a comparable group in the United States; and in this area living conditions as still austere as well as crowded. The people are therefore a favorite target for demagoguery of the hate-America type; and the East Ender's memory of the bitz is not overlooked by politicians with...
...income who can easily afford to send his son to Harvard would save nearly seven hundred dollars under the Multer proposal. Yet a family whose income is $5,000 would probably have to scrape to send a son to Harvard, and would receive benefits only a fraction that large...