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...Stocks of meat are so low that Britain will be lucky to get 25 million pounds during the second quarter of 1945, little more than one-tenth of first-quarter shipments. No meat at all had been allocated for third-quarter Lend-Lease and relief shipments...
Smoke clouds over downtown Boston often cut the amount of sunshine to one-tenth that in suburban districts, Charles F. Brooks, director of Harvard's Blue Hills weather station, revealed today in his annual report...
Joseph Pulitzer Jr. got no prizes from his famed prize-giving father. His chief physical inheritance was the old man's bad eyes (Pulitzer Sr. was so blind that for the last 20 years of his life secretaries read the paper to him). Financially, he inherited only one-tenth of the Pulitzer publishing estate. Brothers Ralph (now dead) and Herbert got the prize, the late, great New York World, and lost it. Joe got the backwater St. Louis Post-Dispatch...
...Shipments of petroleum products (5% of total Lend-Lease transfers) amounted to less than one-tenth of U.S. production...
...combined, the prospects are even brighter. Some promising weapons: ¶ A flamethrower. Used mainly on cotton, sugar cane and corn plantations, this tractor-drawn implement spurts a 2,200° flame along the ground between rows, burns off weeds without harming the stouter stalks of crop plants, costs only one-tenth as much as hoeing. ¶ Calcium cyanamide. This chemical, long used as fertilizer, has recently proved a potent weed destroyer when applied to the soil in extra-heavy doses before planting. Chief users so far: tobacco growers. ¶Oil. California vegetable growers who have tried spraying the soil with...