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...women go where the bulldozers have not gone and the trucks cannot go. They carry their burdens on their backs, holding them with thin, woven bamboo head straps. Each woman takes up to 50 pounds, one-fourth the load saddled on pack horses on the same trails. But there are six times as many Igorot women available as pack horses...
With only about one-fourth of the legal-length game fish being taken from TVA lakes each year, Eschmeyer argued that the fishing should be best at a time when fishing was not permitted-during April and May. Last week thousands of fishermen were inclined to agree with him: they were taking advantage of a stretch of balmy Tennessee Valley weather to reel in heavy hauls of crappie and large-and smallmouth bass...
...officers and sailors saluting their guest at the rail saw one of the few living rulers who looks the part. Looming over them was a robed, resplendent Arab, 6 ft. 4 in. tall-the absolute monarch of some 3,000,000 subjects, the overlord of 3,500,000 more, the master of a few oases and of many deserts and mountains whose combined area (700,000 sq. mi.) is about one-fourth that of the U.S., the dominant Arab of the Middle East's Arab heartland...
...biggest attraction on radio is a pretty, breezy blonde with a high-school-fresh voice named Martha Wilkerson. Most U.S. civilians never heard of her-but from Kodiak to Canberra, Martha is a top G.I. favorite. Last week, with her 870th broadcast, Martha Wilkerson could boast of receiving one-fourth of all the fan mail inspired by the Armed Forces Radio Service's 122 air shows...
...With two years of high school, the average Jap soldier is as well educated as the average G.I. and in at least one respect a lot better. Almost half of all Jap soldiers have studied English; almost one-fourth of them can speak English "efficiently...