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Stocks, which accounted for only three percent of the total investment in 1831, today comprise about 55 percent. Preferreds, which at one time provided one-fourth of the value of the stocks, have been reduced by Cabot to about one-tenth...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Treasurer Cabot Invests $308,000,000 | 5/1/1954 | See Source »

...return a reasonable profit on the company's investment, valued gas produced by the pipeline companies according to the cost of drilling wells and taking out the gas. As a result, the price of gas produced by Panhandle was valued at only 85? a thousand cubic feet, about one-tenth of the market price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Boost for Gas | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

...began with the oft-quoted observation that among Jewish women whose husbands have been routinely, ritually circumcised, cervical cancer is only one-tenth to one-fifth as common as among non-Jewish women of similar age and social status. Was this coincidence or what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Circumcision & Cancer | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

With few regulars appearing in the lineup, Barry Wasserman won the 150-yard individual medley and placed second in the 100-yard breast stroke. The 150-yard medley relay team of Paul Santmire, Captain Sige Falk, and Stu Ogden came within one-tenth of a second of breaking a four-year record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unbeaten Freshman Swimmers Set Back Brookline High, 55-20 | 2/11/1954 | See Source »

...original allotment of $620 million for veterans benefits for fiscal year 1954 was reduced to $356 million last fall in accordance with more realistic estimates of veteran enrollments. It is estimated that only one-tenth of the persons who have soon military service in the Korean war have used their benefits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Enrolls 75 More Returning Vets | 2/4/1954 | See Source »

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