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...Soviet capacity is still only about one-fourth that of the U.S., but this is offset, "in terms of European power politics, by the fact that the U.S. requires tremendous amounts of shipping . . . to supply Europe, whereas the Soviet Union is there on the spot...
...islands in 1940, sat out the war on his New Richmond farm. Since war's end his company has spent $5,000,000 on reconstruction, expects to spend another $3,000,000. Benguet is now mining about 1,000 tons of ore (worth $10,000) daily, about one-fourth of its capacity. Judge Haussermann hopes to get the working force, now 2,000, back to its peak, along with production, in eighteen months...
...callable in 1961), for which the Bank had been paying 104½ to yield 2.60% steadied at 102 for a yield of 2.82%. Since government bonds are the backbone of much of the banks' credit, this meant that the price of money had gone up about one-fourth of 1%. In the long run, dearer money tightens credit and cheapens goods. But it would still be a long time before the Bank of Canada's tinkering with the price of bonds affected the price of cabbage...
...response to a steadily increasing interest in music, especially classical, on the part of the public. Evidence of this increased interest is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that of the 275,000,000 records of all types sold last year (1941's total: 127,000,000), about one-fourth were the higher-priced serious music...
...needed-some substance that made it possible for babies to retain the fluids. After long study, Pediatrician Daniel C. Darrow, of Yale's School of Medicine, decided that potassium was the important substance; the old treatments were not using enough of it. Babies with diarrhea sometimes lose one-fourth of the potassium in their body cells...