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Then smart entrepreneurs started building refineries in the tropics, shipping the finished product instead. The tariff on raw and refined was approximately the same, while labor and taxes were lower than in the U. S. By 1934 these tropical refiners were supplying nearly one-tenth of the 6,000,000-odd tons oi sugar annually consumed...
...Manhattan it was estimated last week that 1,000 million dollars, or about one-tenth of the world's entire current rearmament bill, is being spent for fighting aircraft alone. Vice President Howard S. Welch of Bendix Aviation Corp. figured that 62,349 serviceable planes exist today, about one-third of them war planes, and that in 1937 an additional 28,500 planes are being built, four-fifths of them war planes...
...Each year the masters of Merton College, Oxford, dispatch from the Hythe police station in rural Kent the Hythe Tithe Expeditionary Force, whose duty is to collect for Merton from each farm one-tenth of its harvested crops, one-tenth of its yearly litter of hogs, sheep, cows and chickens...
...members and turns over to the University a substantial part of its income in return for instruction and administration. Since 1925 about a third of the cost of running Oxford has had to be met by Parliament. In 1935 Oxford University spent altogether some $1,290,000, roughly one-tenth of what was spent by Harvard. Oxford's income from its general endowment funds was $95,000, compared to the interest reaped each year by Harvard's $134,000,000 endowment...
...Last week's report of the American Institute of Public Opinion showed Roosevelt up one-tenth of 1% from its poll of the previous fortnight, with 52.6% of the major party popular vote against 47.4% for Landon. Michigan and Colorado shifts to Landon were offset by Ohio's shift to Roosevelt, raising him one electoral vote to a lead...