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...shopping centers have drawn consumers' dollars even more spectacularly than they have the promoters'. Los Angeles' $100 million Lakewood Center, opened two years ago but only one-fourth finished, already rings up about $50 million in annual sales. San Francisco's Stonestown (see cut), one year old this week, is expected to gross $30 million annually by the end of next year. Not only do many of the stores average more business per square foot of floor space than their best in-town competition, but with 10-14% lower operating costs, they also net a much...
...peacetime peak; its work force is now 35,000. In 1951, Daimler-Benz led all West German auto makers in value of production (800 million Deutsche mark, or $190 million), this year expects to produce 1 billion ($238 million) worth of autos and trucks. Already better than one-fourth of its production is in exports, and recently the company started shipping...
...world's 56 million square miles of land, one-fourth lies under the scepter of Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of her other Realms and Territories, Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. In this great domain, nine times vaster than Rome's, live 603 million people...
...cause is a simple optical principle. The burning effect of the bomb's heat on exposed skin diminishes as the square of the distance (twice as far away, it is one-fourth as strong). But the eye is a lens that concentrates heat and light in a spot on the retina. As distances increase, the spot grows smaller but remains as bright. At four miles away, a nuclear fireball 90 feet across forms a brilliant spot on the retina 1/300th of an inch in diameter. This is larger than the fovea centralis, the part of the retina that...
...have built it wholly of concrete would have created a national cement shortage. Lazo got the idea of scooping back the volcanic rubble on the site into two great mounds, and laying a concrete oval shell on the cavity between. The job, carried out in 15 months, cost about one-fourth that of a concrete stadium. And because most of the oval's seats are located on the two tall slopes, most of the spectators can watch the university's football team from reasonably near the 50-yd. line. On the stadium's sloping outside walls, Diego...