Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Problem. The Government owns a large part of the U. S. Merchant Marine, a portion of which was built or acquired during the War. It manages to operate a good portion of the ships it owns. In the fiscal year of 1923-24, it lost some $36,000,000 on its fleet-$3,000,000 a month. Of this amount, about 80% was actual operating loss. The largest reason for this loss is the poor condition of the shipping industry...
...INEVITABLE MILLIONAIRES-E. Phililps Oppenheim -Little, Brown ($2.00). Life for Stephen and George Henry Underwood was a prolonged struggle against the adversity of success. To these meek brothers their father had left a vast fortune with the instruction that they should "disseminate among their fellow creatures a considerable portion of their income," adding that the art of spending was as difficult as the art of saving. They tried to lose by backing a musical comedy, an open-air theatre, a golf club. Always, miserably, they profited. Mr. Oppenheim-King Spider, spinner of a thousand diabolical detective tales -here chuckles with...
...Eclipse. All through the northeastern portion of the U. S. and Canada the sun will be partly eclipsed by the disk of the moon early on that morning. The area of complete eclipse?the area where the complete shadow of the moon will sweep over the East?brings in Minnesota at sunrise, thence moving southeastward in a gentle curve. It will cross northern Minnesota, nipping Duluth with its southern edge, cross the western tip of Lake Superior, include much of Wisconsin and Michigan on both sides of their joint border, skim over the northern third of Lake Michigan...
...haughty man of the hour turns his back on the bull, receives his sword and muleta (a brilliant scarlet cloth hung from a short stick) and addresses himself to the president of the fight. He asks permission to commit tauricide and, that received, next dedicates the animal to a portion of the arena, or to a lady, or to a wealthy patron, by tossing his hat into the stand. When the hat comes back, its owner is confident of finding therein some costly gift...
...International and its paltry 439,655 paid subscribers. Perhaps he himself is weary of cheap "human interest" articles in this particular portion of his vast press and feels he can best serve the Nation by concentrating on pure, unabashed fiction...