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...part of Boston's newspaper trouble is an overcrowded market. With only one less newspaper than New York, Boston has a circulation area (3,000,000) only one-fourth as big. But some of the papers' troubles also stem from a unique and weirdly wonderful kind of indigenous Boston journalism...
What the unnamed "traveler" reported was that south and east Asia, populated by more than one-fourth of the people in the world, was ripe for a Communist har vesting unless the U.S. bestirred itself...
...Russians, Clark finds, have achieved only one-fourth the productivity of Britain, two-fifths that of France. Russia is in a class with such economically backward countries as Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Brazil and Turkey. It leads India, which produces only half as much per man-hour as Russia, and China, whose productivity rate was only one-fourth of the U.S.S.R...
Ears & Tails. Of all the animals born at La Punta, about half are males. Only one-fourth turn out to be fighters, and only 5% prove exceptional in their one brief appearance in a ring (where bulls are either killed in fighting, slaughtered for cowardice, or-very rarely-pardoned for1 extreme bravery and sent back to live out their lives as seed bulls). Los diablos negros (the black devils) of La Punta have charged the capes of Belmonte, Manolete, and most of the other great and near-great of recent bullring history. Businesswise, La Punta's long gamble...
...Said one of Wall Street's shrewdest speculators: "If I could find somebody who could tell me a sure way of keeping one-fourth of my fortune, I would cheerfully give him the other three-fourths." Nobody in Wall Street has yet found the "sure way." But in a world of welfare states populated with security-minded people, more investors than ever are engaged in a ceaseless search of their own for security...