Word: fractioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that the steel industry is operating at only 27% of capacity will not assist their renewal on terms favorable to the union. From union figures it was estimated that 224,000 steel & allied workers have been laid off in the past few months, and that only a small fraction of those still employed are working full time. Union membership has sagged, as it always does in hard times, and dues are so hard to collect that the S. W. O. C., "for reasons of economy," has had to cut its force of organizers and officeworkers from...
...Another, more desperate, may resort to even less polite alternatives. Their individual case-histories would fill volumes. These social malcontents comprise a large fraction of the Undergraduates. What of them...
...commented recently that the average college student could give the name of the coach of practically any prominent college football team. At the same time he added that he doubted if the names of the presidents of those colleges could be given by more than a fraction of the number of college undergraduates. Some rather conclusive proof to the contrary was given at a recent dinner here in Cambridge at which an uninitiated Harvard undergraduate remarked on the presence of James Farley...
...York Stock Exchange. When the gallery is completed there may well be mention of last week's market, for prices sagged broadly to a new 1937 low. Dow-Jones industrial averages closed one day at 118.13, lowest closing point since June 1935 and only a fraction above the depths touched by prices on "Black Tuesday," October 19. U. S. Steel dropped...
...radiation subsides, what it consisted of. In altering atomic structures, Dr. Lawrence has even created a few atoms of gold, thus technically at least realizing the old dream of the alchemists. But the raw material for this transmutation was platinum, and the few gold atoms were not worth a fraction of the energy used in manufacturing them, although the electric current necessary to run the cyclotron for an hour costs only $1.50. "Anyway," as Lawrence remarks with a grin, "the information we are getting is worth more than gold...