Word: fractionization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemy on Okinawa had been com pressed into a minute fraction of the island's area - no more than 20 of its 485 sq. mi.- and U.S. ground forces called for fire support from the fleet's guns to soften another stubborn line, the last on which the enemy could stand. Along the Yaeju-Dake escarpment, 3,000 yds. long, 600 ft. high, including a 300-ft. cliff, perhaps half of the 15,000 or so surviving Japanese were dug in. They had scores of fortified caves, from each of which they would have to be burned...
...longer will the Harvard Crimson Network broadcast its three and a half hours of recorded music over 830 kilocycles on your radio dial. A newly-born WHCN will present its program a fraction of an inch to the left at 800 kilocycles...
Commodities. The Bureau of Labor Statistics index of commodity prices crept up another fraction of a point, reached 104.9% of the 1926 average-a new wartime highwater mark. As usual, higher prices for foodstuffs contributed most to the rise...
...these parties were only a fraction of those to which the Trumans were invited-and went. By this week the schedule was settling down to a steady canter. The Vice President's office had three dates on the docket, but there were about five more in the offing. High mark was an invitation from Mrs. Evalyn Walsh (Hope Diamond) McLean...
...treaty was sure to run into opposition in the U.S. Senate. California was bitterly opposed. Mexico's share was only a small fraction of the Colorado's water, but California farmers feared increased competition from Texas and Mexico. Much Mexican land on the lower Colorado was as productive (if irrigated) as California's famed Imperial Valley. It might compete with California's cotton and vegetable crop. South Texas raises high-grade citrus fruit and is closer than California to Eastern U.S. markets. California would like to stop that irrigation leak...