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...passenger cars produced in West Germany during the first seven months of this year, about one-fourth had engine displacements of less than 1,000 cc. (Volkswagen: 1,110). The Kabinenroller has been one of the most popular midgets (displacement...
Workman's Compensation. In Birmingham, after being arrested for drunken pedaling of his three-wheeled ice-cream cart. Thomas Bogan, 53, was "grounded" for 60 days by Recorder's Court Judge Oliver Hall, but charged only one-fourth of the usual fine because he was "generating his own power...
...needs to be a good deal said and written, not for organized labor, whose coffers are filled to overflowing, but for the mass that is not organized. Using 15 million as the A.F.L.-C.I.O. membership, and 45 million not a part of that membership, your figures, gives us a one-fourth and three-fourths ratio...
Just four years ago, released from an American military prison, Alfried Krupp got back some 30 seized enterprises worth $90 million (about one-fourth of what Krupp once controlled), and was told he could produce only products of peace, e.g., locomotives, tractors, etc. Specifically barred from coal mining and steelmaking, Krupp decided to diversify, went to work to regain his old world markets and set up a new branch (Krupp Technik) to concentrate on industrial planning and construction abroad. The strategy succeeded. Among Krupp's current booming projects...
...Knowledge can be a more potent force than ignorance in keeping cancer victims from seeking prompt treatment. Of 314 Britons (mostly women), half had delayed going to a doctor for more than three months after symptoms appeared, and one-fourth had delayed more than a year. Regardless of intelligence, those who did not suspect that they had cancer delayed less than those who feared that they had. Doctors in the U.S. have reported opposite results...