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...other measure, "Georgie" Patton had a big week. Against increasing opposition, he still held the initiative, still got men across the river. And his artillery had delivered one mighty blow to the German war machine. Under fire of Patton's guns was almost one-tenth of Germany's iron-and steelmaking capacity. U.S. Long Toms knocked out towering blast furnaces, ripped out great sections of sprawling mills in the Saar's narrow industrial corridor...
...results forecast a germinal revolution in U.S. dairy farming. Most dairymen have fewer than 20 cows, cannot afford to keep or hire a superior bull. Dr. Bartlett believes that artificial insemination, with a few great bulls fathering most of the nation's calves, is economically inevitable (already nearly one-tenth of all New Jersey calves are so bred). One incidental bene fit, he observes, is that bulls, which almost invariably become vicious after their fourth or fifth year, will be largely eliminated as a menace to life & limb in the U.S. countryside...
...English lends itself to simplification more than other languages," Professor Richards explains, in questioning the use of a Basic French or Spanish. Mastery of Basic entails one-tenth the labor of learning English, and since foreign schools place their greatest emphasis on the English language, Professor Richards believes the place of Basic "pretty secure...
...library houses books not in immediate demand, duplicates, and old newspapers. After its completion in March 1942, Widener moved in most of its back newspaper volumes, which had been occupying one-tenth of its space, or room for 200,000 volumes...
...simply to man her guns. She is armored with 16-inch plate, is built so ruggedly that the recoil of her main batteries is reduced to an unexciting whoosh in the engine rooms below. Her speed is "more than 30 knots," her maneuverability better than many warships one-tenth as large...