Word: fractionization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lack of transportation inside China makes it hard to move supplies from provinces relatively well supplied to those bare of even the plainest necessities. Lack of capital to nourish the small but intense efforts to mechanize handicrafts limits China's capacity to satisfy even a fraction of the mounting demand. Capital had discovered smuggling from Occupied China; the returns were fat and fast. As merchants saw that the authorities were not opposed, they plunged avidly into the get-rich-quick border trade...
...passenger airplanes "of unique design." The company discreetly hinted that Employe Charles A. Lindbergh's experiments "may influence the design of the new plane." The sky Ford of the future (small models have been built) is being designed to land in relatively small space, to operate at a fraction of present big-plane flying cost. It is to be "as positively safe as it is possible to make...
...killing two birds with one stone-I'm acting and I'm talking for Negroes in the way only Shakespeare can." He will play it as long as possible, all over the country (except in the South) even though his $1,500-a-week salary is a fraction of what he can earn singing at $2,000 or $2,500 a night. For Othello he lost 35 pounds, now 230, "practically my football weight...
...chosen was serious, curly-haired, stocky Hal Block-who resembles Actor Edward G. Robinson. A University of Chicago graduate (1934), he was a scriptwriter for Burns & Allen and coauthor of Olsen & Johnson's Sons o' Fun. U.S.O. installed Block at BBC, which pays him a fraction of his previous earnings...
...TIME, Sept. 6, appeared a story to the effect that I was getting a "fancy" fee of $100,000 for this work. This statement is false. No other publication made it. The fact is that my fee, if you choose to call it that, is a fraction of this amount, and it includes all expenses. It may be noted in passing that during the time I am away I draw no pay from the only paid public position which I hold, and that the amount I recommended for my own contract was so small that the others concerned insisted...