Word: fractionating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pratt & Whitney has already made big gains in solving the problem.lt has worked out high-alloy mixes which eliminate the use of columbium completely in the J-48. It has also reduced the use of other critical metals to a mere fraction of a pound per engine. Others have developed substitutes which permit existing supplies of the critical metals to be stretched 15 times farther...
...that. "The air and naval forces that were at my disposal out there were only operating at a fraction of their efficiency. They are, in effect, by being confined to the narrow area of the battleground of Korea . . . merely performing that function which would be regarded as tactical support of the infantry line. The great strategic concept of stopping the supplies to troops, of preventing the buildup of troops . . . the disorganization of transportation lines-all of the uses which . . . Navy and air are supposed to do-are not permitted over there...
...killing was not altogether one-sided, although allied losses were only a small fraction of Red casualties. It took a little time to get "rolling with the punch" (one of last week's favorite expressions in Korea). In the first Red onrush, some allied units were overrun or cut off-notably Britain's gallant Gloucesters (see Men at War). Allied ambulances raced past southbound truck columns that rolled, bumper to bumper, through choking clouds of dust...
Britain's butchers carve the tiny weekly meat ration with surgeonlike skill; a slip of a fraction of an inch, and the legal eightpennyworth is exceeded. The Ministry of Food sometimes tests these craftsmen, and last week its testing methods came under fire...
...down and get his work done, sighed after reading Ulysses: "I guess the man's a genius, but what a dirty mind he has, surely!" After he reached success and died, she long endured a genteel poverty, unwilling to live in England, unable to get more than a fraction of his royalties out of the country...