Word: fractionization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning of the year Stalin was in an unenviable spot. During the year before he had sold over 400,000 miles of territory at the price of saving most of his army. Gone was a big fraction-how large only he knew-of the precious tanks, planes and war equipment which he had been hoarding for years against the Nazi attack. Gone was roughly one-third of Russia's industrial capacity, on which he depended for replacements. Gone was nearly half of Russia's best farmland...
...When the star of one of radio's most popular nighttime shows said "Good night," listening dropped sharply. The sponsor's closing commercial was heard by only a fraction of the program's audience...
...launch one vessel in four days, 15 hours, and another which, 51 days after keel-laying, turned up with cargo in Australia. From the Kaiser empire, sprawling from Seattle to Portland to Los Angeles, came one out of every three Libertys built. And though the U.S. built only a fraction of the ships it needs, it achieved its 1942 production goal of 8,000,000 tons...
Detroit had licked its bogeys: of unemployment during conversion, of possible failure at a new job, of possible paralysis when gasoline rationing began. A year ago the auto industry had 500,000 workers, only a fraction of them at war work. Now it has 660,000, with 95% of them at war jobs. The industry produces 60-70% more than it ever did in peacetime-and the peak is still six months away...
...Over Popguns. To the trade a "popgun" mill is a tiny sawmill largely supplied, and often run, by farmers and small-towners in their spare time. There are, according to the U.S. Forest Service, some 32,000 of these popgun mills in the U.S. but only a fraction of them now produce any lumber to speak of. For they are too small to be assured of any market in the midst of huge orders centrally placed, or to be able to cope with Federal regulations limiting prices, shipments...