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...Each D. U. causes the car to require a longer turning radius ... for dry concrete pavement 80 feet longer for each D. U. carried. Thus you can make only one-fourth as sharp a turn at 50 as at 25; one-ninth as sharp...
Surrender of the remaining one-fourth of Spain now in Loyalist hands was expected to come within a few days. After two years, seven months and one week of a bloody warfare which has caused untold destruction and led to the death of an estimated 1,000,000 persons the war was all but over...
Meanwhile Walter White, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which financed the Gaines test case, declared the decision was more sweeping than he had hoped. To Negroes it means far more than a chance to go to professional school. The South today spends only one-fourth as much for each Negro child's education as for each white child's, and in Walter White's view the court's ruling that Negroes must have equal educational opportunities means that the South must establish parity in expenditures from top to bottom...
Today is the last day for the payment of the November term bill without incurring the penalty for late payment. This bill includes one-fourth of the tuition fee, one-half of the total room rents, and charges at the Dining Halls from September 26 to October...
Scarcely less acute was the wheat problem, for which Secretary Wallace is seeking a partial solution in a subsidy scheme under which he hopes to export 100,000,000 bu., about one-fourth the present U. S. surplus. To dump only 26,000,000 bu. abroad in 1934, the U. S. spent $6,500,000. However ingeniously conceived, a similar program now would not only add a neat expense item to AAA's bulging budget but would almost certainly bring a squawk from Secretary of State Hull, champion of reciprocal trade treaties. In addition, subsidized U. S. wheat would...