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...year 1926, the latest figures available show that 1/20th of 1% of the 430,000 corporations in this country earned 40% of their profits; 40% of the corporations actually lost money; one-fourth of 1% of these corporations earned two-thirds of the profits of all of them. Specific industries are wholly prostrate and there is widespread business difficulty and discontent among the individual businessmen of the country...
Wheat exports move chiefly from the Americas and Australia into Europe and the Balkans, although most European states grow a major portion of what they consume. France, for example, grows one-fourth as much wheat as the U. S., three times as much as Germany, twice as much as Rumania and slightly more than Italy...
...During the current fiscal year, begun Oct. 1, $609,754,840 will be expended for capital improvements in industry, over one-fourth of this for new plants...
...special corrective exercises for Freshmen will start under the direction of Mr. Fradd as soon as the physical examinations have been completed. For the past five years one-fourth of the Freshman class has been rated D in bodily mechanics according to the X ray photographs taken at the beginning of each year...
...three minutes a motion picture camera played against a laboratory screen at Rochester, N. Y., last week. In the picture were what seemed to be animated sausages approximately one-fourth of an inch long and one-twelth of an inch in diameter. They unfolded, grew, multiplied. They were bacteria magnified 2,000 times and photographed in motion by an ordinary moving picture camera ingeniously fitted to an ordinary microscope...