Word: fractioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free market. The 1958 quotas will do little to solve wheatmen's problems. Despite the acreage limitation program and the soil-banking of more than 12 million acres (in reality often poor land) at a cost of $231 million, the 1957 crop promises to be only a fraction smaller than last year, further adding to the nation's ominous 1.3 billion-bu. surplus...
...first sketchy reports touched off a brief, orderly selling wave: the Exchange ticker ran late, and stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average slipped 4.91 points in an hour. But when the White House issued a reassuring bulletin, stocks turned quickly around, made up all but a 1.87-point fraction of the day's loss, then climbed steadily higher on each successive day. At week's end the average stood at 511.79, up 6.16 points to a new high for the year, and within easy range of the historic 521 peak set in April...
...admittedly has a duty to the nation, they say, but that duty is to preserve the high standards of scholarship that it now maintains. Any compromise with the quality of a Harvard education is a disastrous price to pay for an increase in admissions which can cover only a fraction of a per cent of the national total...
...dark-skinned Spanish nobleman was known for his heavy-foot driving, the careless speed that sent his cars tumbling off the track as often as they finished. Now he knew better. He had learned that every stretch of road, every curve has its optimum speed, that a fraction too little would surely lose, that a shade too much might mean disaster...
What Can They Sell? Trade with the Red bloc is still a fraction of the non-Communist world's trade. Although French exports to China tripled from 1955 to 1956, they still totaled less than $23 million last year. Few expect a sudden spurt if the restrictions are lifted. British exports to China, worth $30 million last year (less than 1% of Britain's total exports), would probably double. Japanese exports to China, worth $24 million in this year's first quarter, have about reached the limit unless Peking can ship more and better coal and iron...