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Word: fractioning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record, Air France should thrive on the competition. In the postwar scramble for business, Air France has fought its way up until it now flies 38% of the transatlantic traffic to Paris (some 300,000 passengers annually). Yet the North Atlantic is only a small fraction of Air France's booming business. With a fleet of 121 planes taking off at the rate of one every four minutes around the world, the line flies 156,000 miles of routes to 73 countries and territories, and is growing bigger by the year. In 1955 alone, it carried nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Pegasus a la Francaise | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...Fraction of the Past

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong: Main Door to Communist China: A remarkably unfrightened place | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...situation will continue to become more involved the longer the plot remains unsold, Daly pointed out. Any one of the seven owners might leave his share of the estate to several more people, each of whom would then own a small fraction of the estate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Will Menaces Possible Site Of 8th House | 12/17/1955 | See Source »

Cars parked on bridges, in front of driveways, or obstructing traffic in any way would automatically be towed away under Morton's proposal. Frequent violators could, however, be towed away from fraction of parking regulations, including all overnight parking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Full-Scale Attack On Car Violations Sought by Ex-Eli | 12/13/1955 | See Source »

...Torre site may establish what has long been suspected by Italian paleontologists: that Central Italy is one of earth's oldest inhabited places. Confirmation of this theory depends on Blanc's efforts to find human bones to match the man-made axes. After exploring only a fraction of the Torre site, Blanc says optimistically: "This place is a kind of prehistoric Pompeii. Something, presumably sudden flood or volcanic material, forced these people to leave in a hurry. I know it's unchristian of me, but I can't help hoping that one of them got caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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