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Eight hundred and seventeen delegates assembled within the walled and turreted Kremlin last week. Lumbering peasants, stalwart workers, stern or oleaginous officials, they made up the 15th Conference of the Communist Party. One-fourth of them were empowered to take the floor in reply to a question from the Chair. One-sixth could comment on the debate. One-fourteenth were authorized to make speeches...
...There is at present no stable government in China. The area of China is a million square miles greater than that of the United States. China is larger than the United States, Mexico and Central America combined. It is larger than all Europe. More than four hundred million, or one-fourth of the people of the earth, live in China...
Everyone knows that, if he remains awake until midnight, he may make a long distance call at one-fourth the price of the daytime charge. If he calls between 8:30 p. m. and midnight, the fee is one-half the day rate. That is, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (the Bell System) considers daytime to range from 4:30 a. m. to 8:30 p. m., evenings from 8:30 p. m. to midnight, and night from midnight to 4:30 a. m. Thus charge for certain calls from Manhattan...
...Estimated to be 39,666,000 bu.; was 48,696,000 bu. last year; sold currently at $1.05 to $1.10 a bushel. Germany leads the world. The U. S. ranks third with one-fourth as much. North Dakota leads the U. S. Dry, hot weather has caused complaints...
...Pont de Nemours & Co. consolidates the Du Pont family investments in industrial enterprises, including a one-fourth interest in General Motors. Their half year net earnings were...