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...conditions, after all, were aimed "at the restoration of multilateral trade, which is a system upon which British commerce essentially depends." Lord Beaverbrook had argued that Britain could get along by trading in her own sterling area. Keynes's crushing comment: "I have never heard of statistics one-fiftieth part so phoney...
...further research on drugs. But the biggest weapon in his arsenal is simply a mobile X-ray machine, with which he hopes eventually to photograph every chest in the U.S. The machine, now equipped with a new electronic timing device, produces fast, small, high-quality X rays at one-fiftieth of the former cost, can take 500 pictures...
...face of a labor scarcity. The current curtailment to twenty per cent of the 1940 allotment has been recognized as a mistake by the WPB, and it is known, that the figure has been upped in practice to sixty per cent. Yet when all agricultural equipment amounts to only one-fiftieth of the nation's metal consumption surely Davis deserves more than an advisory voice in falling his needs...
Britons pointed out that the 12.000,000 lost man-hours represented just one-fiftieth of 1% of total man-hours worked, or one half-hour's work lost per worker during the year. Said a Labour Ministry spokesman: "Though this proportion is infinitesimally small, it is still looked on most seriously as it is equivalent to 5,000 workers working full time. While making no optimistic forecasts for a reduction in 1943, the present publicity is part of a campaign started by the Ministry to reduce losses as far as possible...
Generally, Britons thought that a loss of one-fiftieth of 1% of the long, grinding hours they work to lick the Axis is a pretty good show...