Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Special round-trip excursions to "historic" points like Niagara Falls are sold at only a fraction more than the one-way Pullman charge. With 3,400 cars in that service last year Pullman reported the amazing average of 26.6 persons...
...friends knew he was an essayist, biographer, a knowledgeable connoisseur of literature. In poor health, he worked away at Black Monastery, his one big book, lived to see it published (May 1931) seven weeks before his death. Though the Versailles Treaty whittled Hungary down to an impoverished fraction of its pre-War self, 20,000 copies of Author Kuncz's last testament have been sold there...
...snorted. Dr. Tugwell had never seen a pig near Boston. Farm census takers had never reported a small fraction of that number. Middlesex was trying to get away with an atrocious steal. Just how atrocious was shown by the fact that if Middlesex raised 100,000 pigs it had a bigger pig population per square mile than any other county in the U. S. Before AAA paid Middlesex farmers a dollar it would send investigators to bring Middlesex back to the paths of honesty...
...deprecate its esthetically revolting preoccupation with the glorification of big business-at the same time offering it as an extraordinarily fine indictment of American capitalism, which has seen to it that the magazine 90% of the populace would doubtless prefer is available to God knows what infinitesimal fraction of that number! ROBERT PREYER...
Members begins with my actually be as small and impressive as the capitalization world make them; it ends in the grand climax of Member No.1. Schneider-Creusot--whose capitalization of 100,00,000 name reflects only a fraction of its true importance. The great and the little thus bound together make up the power and the glory of the Comite. It controls the press: it has the ear of the foreign office...