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...York, Pa. to Fort Worth, Tex. It was a tough one; the school kids in Springfield, Mass, who took the examination 101 years ago averaged only 40.60% in spelling, 29.40% in math. In the past eight months 20-odd schools have given the tests. Even though some words were beyond their ken, 1947-5 boys & girls batted 44.68% on such items as accessible, chirography, descendant and evanescent. In math they scored 52.16% on such questions as this: "There is a certain number, one-third of which exceeds one-fourth of it by two; what is the number...
...Every Finn I met wanted to get along with Russia, but not many of them liked the Soviet system. The Finns are doing their best to meet all armistice and peace treaty terms, including the highest per capita reparations of any World War II loser. Last year, reparations took one-fourth of Finland's total industrial production and more than one-eighth of her national income...
...nation's shoes are made, production for the first four months of the year was lagging about 20% behind the same period in 1946. Some shoe plants have shut down alto gether, while at least 25% are running only two or three days a week. About one-fourth of New England's 100,000 shoe workers are either out of work or have taken a deep cut in their take-home pay. Haverhill and Lynn, Mass., center of the women's shoe industry, have been the hardest...
Working people-the backbone of Labor's support-would be hurt most by the tobacco boost.† A man with a ?5 weekly wage (about one-fifth of British wage earners get less) would have to spend about one-fourth of his pay to smoke one package of cigarets...
...princes as a group had a strong position. Ruling one-fourth of India's people, they could swing the balance to the new Government, perhaps end the threat of dismemberment and chaos. But last week they were not a group; it was every raja for himself...