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...satellites are a dubious asset to Russia. Their economies have long been tied in with Western Europe. In steel, for example, the satellites have a total capacity of 5,000,000 tons - one-fourth of Russia's capacity. Yet this production has long been based on materials imported from the West, especially ores from Sweden. In oil - mainly from Rumania's Ploesti, Hungary's Lispe and Austria's Zistersdorf fields - the satellites can produce 6,000,000 tons, a sixth of Russia's own production. But most of this oil is needed to keep...
...About one-fourth of Brandeis' expansion program is already started. Construction is in progress on new dormitories and an athletic plant; by next year the college expects to increase its incoming class to 300 students...
...loose from her moorings in a storm, knocked a hole in her hull and sank on a mud bank. The French Line spent almost $20 million to raise and refurbish the ship. The sum was roughly equal to the Europa's original cost, but it was only about one-fourth the postwar cost of building such a vessel. The French Line hoped the sleek liner would earn back the money on the profitable Atlantic...
...nine million West Germans in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia -which includes the Ruhr-went to the polls to elect a new state legislature. It was the second free election in Germany since the Nazis, and the quietest yet. By evening the voters, mostly miners and steelworkers, representing one-fourth of all voters in West Germany, had smashingly rejected both Communists and extreme right-wing Nationalist parties...
...sheer editorial enterprise, the Jefferson Papers deserved the applause. Of its kind, nothing so massive has ever been attempted in the U.S. The 39-volume bicentennial edition of George Washington's papers runs to only one-third the number of words and documents, Yale's great, still incomplete 50-volume Horace Walpole Correspondence to about one-fourth the documents...