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...century long-fibred U. S. cotton was rescued from fungus by crossbreeding with a resistant Egyptian variety; in the 1920s Louisiana sugar cane was saved by supplanting the old "noble" strains with resistant breeds. In 1937 the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry estimated that more than one-fourth of U. S. farmlands were planted to disease-resistant crops...
Britain's case against India is that India must help to preserve the Empire, for if the Empire falls India will become a prey to less enlightened powers. After victory will come Dominion status. Behind this reasoning lies the cogent fact that one-fourth of Britain's overseas wealth is invested in this brightest jewel in her crown. "Two out of ten Englishmen depend on India," said Winston Churchill...
...Many are paired, the two members revolving around each other like the ends of a spinning dumbbell. Such bright stars as Capella, Spica, Castor, Mizar (a Big Dipper star) and Algol (the "Demon Star") are binaries (doubles). Some stars occur in groups of more than two. Astronomers estimate that one-fourth or more of all the stars in the sky are doubles or multiples. Last week astronomers heard of a pair of stellar Siamese twins...
Significant were the Berlitz figures on specific languages people wanted to study. Biggest decline was in the demand for German: only one-fourth as many students as before the war. Enrollments in French and Italian were down to one-half. But students of Spanish had multiplied twelve-fold, today number 7,000 of the 11,251 total enrollment. Among them: Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, last week appointed coordinator of U. S. commercial and cultural relations with South America...
Following the lead of William Allen White, Kansas editor of the "Emporia Gazette," who is national chairman of the committee, the Bay State organization seeks the signatures of one-fourth of the state's population on a giant petition to be sent to President Roosevelt. The new group also will supervise the formation of sub-committees throughout New England...