Word: fractioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between the Crops. But nobody denied that the union had the right valley, if the wrong man. Last week an estimated 40,000 farm laborers were jobless, watching their savings melt away between the early cotton and the delayed potato crop. A small fraction of them lived passably well in the former Government camps, now run by growers' associations, but an uncounted number were living as the U.S. likes to think none of its citizens lives-in corrugated tin hovels or sagging tents, with no capital left to drag a flock of youngsters to the next harvest area...
They raced under the wire as one. An unreal silence fell. Finally the photofinish camera revealed the truth: Noor had beaten Citation again, by the thinnest fraction of a nose. The time: 2:52 4/5, a new American record for the mile and three quarters...
...outstanding achievement was the discovery of the liver treatment for pernicious anemia in 1926. Not only did he realize that a liver diet could reduce the seriousness of this red-blood cell deficiency, but he spend many years extracting the effective fraction of liver and making it commercially available for the medical profession...
...Germany, the blue dismissal envelopes are going out to workers in factories and shops at the rate of 15,000 a day. Five hundred thousand Germans have been added to the unemployment rolls in the past two months; more than one worker in ten is now jobless. Only a fraction of the unemployment figures can be accounted for by the refugees from the Soviet zone, and ex-P.W.s coming home from Soviet prison camps. With a few exceptions (e.g., coal mines and steel mills), almost every industry has had to let workers go. Businessmen say: "Customers just aren...
Designing one is not easy. The sun has plenty of time, but a man-made fusion reaction must take place during the small fraction of a second while the temperature generated by the fissioning uranium is still high enough. All the ingredients must be ready to react instantaneously...