Word: one-tenth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Charles A. Thomas, president of Monsanto Chemical Co., which has already spent $250,000 investigating commercial uses of atomic energy, estimates that it would cost $60 million to build a 125,000-kw. atomic power plant (about one-tenth of the power used by greater Boston). Of this sum, $44 million would be the cost of a reactor for plutonium production and could come from the Government; the rest would be for the heat-transfer units, turbines, etc. for the power plant, and might come from private industry...
Between them, Montgomery and Caldwell Counties had used up about one-tenth of the gamma globulin that ODM had earmarked for mass inoculations this year. There will be enough left for 20 more average-size counties...
Smirnov estimates Russian oil production has reached 950,000 bbls. a day, plus 160,000 bbls. a day from its satellites. With total Communist production at 1,110,000 bbls. daily, it is still less than one-tenth of the 11.7 million bbls. which the free world produces every day, and far short of even the U.S. daily production, of 6,400,000 bbls...
Strasser argued that it was "undemocratic" for one-quarter of the Collage to have only one-tenth strength on the Council. He further urged that freshmen vote during their first semester of office since their scant College grounding would force the Council to carefully define each issue and thus move slowly and "conservatively...
Walter C. Carrington '52 1L presented "the students' view on investigations." Veide, he said, "has recently admitted that 99.9 percent of the teachers are loyal and it appears that he is looking for the disloyal one-tenth percent...