Word: onefourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permission to settle in Alaska, founded Alaska's first refugee colony at Metlakatla. They fished for salmon, now have Alaska's most prosperous municipality. With publicly owned utilities, a 60-piece band, Alaska's only municipal hall, modern Met-lakatlans have fine homes (onefourth have organs or pianos), own boats valued from...
...Oklahoma City and Omaha were on relief they would approximately equal the number of persons in New York City now living on government bounties. They number 1,400,000- one-fifth the total population.* To support them costs about $20,000,000 per month, of which the city supplies onefourth, the State onefourth, the Federal Government one-half. About 17% of them are aliens or people who have taken out their first papers. Only 120,000 of them work for their relief pay, and of these only 19,500 are employed on white-collar projects. But the activities of those...
...armaments (see p. 14). Armies were to be cut one-third above necessary "police components." All tanks, large mobile guns and bombing planes were to be abolished along with chemical warfare and poison gas. Battleship fleets were to be cut one-third, cruiser, destroyer and aircraft carrier tonnage onefourth. No nation was to have more than 35,000 tons of submarine. The President raised his voice emphatically to declare: "The time has come when we should cut through the brush and adopt some broad and definite method of reducing the overwhelming burden of armament which now lies upon the toilers...
...third in strength of all land armies over & above the so-called police component!" "I propose," the President went on, "that the treaty number and tonnage of battleships shall be reduced by one-third; that the treaty tonnage of aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers shall be reduced by onefourth; that the treaty tonnage of submarines shall be reduced by one-third, and that no nation shall retain a submarine tonnage greater than...
Left. By the late Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, president of Campbell Soup Co.: $1 14,850,733; to his wife, Mrs. Ethel Mallinckrodt Dorrance ($100,000, life interest in one-fourth the estate); his son John Thompson Jr. (life interest in onefourth); his four daughters, Ethel, Margaret, Charlotte, Mrs. Nathaniel Peter Hill (the remaining half) ; all to be held in trust until the majority of John Thompson...