Word: fractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general intelligence rate rises even a fraction of one per cent, that rise constitutes a real revolution in social conditions. Perhaps this period of depression is the advance guard of some such fundamental change simply through a redistribution of leisure...
...greater than supply. Whence the dollar flood that has eaten away 35? of every 100? in each U. S. dollar since last April? Continental money-changers, canniest of whom are reputed to be "the Greeks," delight in selling dollars short, but bankers know that that accounted for only a fraction of the drop. Last week from the British Commonwealth Relations Conference in Toronto came confirmation of what Wall Street has long suspected: that U. S. citizens have exported their dollars by the hundreds of millions...
...mortgage companies went blithely ahead guaranteeing the interest & principal of the mortgages they sold to the public until they had guaranteed 35% of all the mortgages in New York City. Of course they never dreamed that they would ever have to make good on any but a small fraction of this $3,000,000,000 contingent liability, but the worst happened. When Depression set in, mortgages defaulted, foreclosed property could not be sold and investors instead of buying new mortgages to replace the ones that matured, loudly demanded their money. By last February the guaranteed mortgage companies were...
Eleanor Holm, who looks so much like a film actress that she has become one, kept her 220-yd. backstroke championship in a fraction of a second less than her own world's record of 2 min. 57.8 sec. Minnowy little Katherine Rawls of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-without Georgia Coleman, who turned professional last year, to bother her-ran off with the loft. spring board diving title, 132.44 points to Dorothy Poynton's 123.64. Less freckled than she was a year ago but just as versatile, Minnow Rawls broke her own world's record...
...neither Daddy Graves nor offspring fear. TIME, no alibi for slackness about the house, is read by able Mamma Graves in a fraction of the time which stupid housewives waste...