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...Debate Council has realized the need for regular income and has started raising a $10,000 endowment fund, whose annual yield will supply the necessary money. But it will probably be ten years before the final sum is reached. If the Council can raise one-tenth of their goal each year, it should be entitled to the decreasing difference between the endowment yield and the necessary yearly $300. This money would have to come from Dean Bender's fund...
...Francisco owns a handsome two-story house on the busy Calle de los Reyes Catolicos. He himself occupies the upper floor. Below are the offices of the Banco de Bilbao, which for 15 years has paid him a yearly rent of 12,000 pesetas ($1,080), now about one-tenth of what the landlord could get from a new tenant. Don Francisco pleaded inflation and asked for more rent from Bank Manager Jose Santamaria. Then he tried litigation. He got nowhere...
...circulation field of nine. The combined circulations of the World-Telegram (342,000) and the Sun, Publisher Dewart said, were "enough to assure the economic stability of one newspaper but not enough for two . . ." Advertisers, sensing the Sun's slow eclipse, had dropped more than 1,500,000 lines in 1949. In a decade, its share of the New York advertising cake had been sliced from one-tenth to one-twentieth...
...analysis made with Dr. S. H. Clayton, also of Dallas, Dr. Moyer found that 40,000 to 50,000 Americans get cancer of the stomach every year. Only one-tenth of the victims are operated on, and he believes that half the surgery patients die from the operation...
This places the operation on a skill, rather than gambling, basis, and the pigeons show their appreciation by registering amazing reaction speeds, up to one-tenth of a second. This makes pigeon-speed "greater than that of apes and equal to humans...