Word: proportionately
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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> Hollywood's contention that 75% of its audience is female is out of joint. The figure is 51%. This proportion is bad news for moviemakers who see only a box-office advantage for pictures that appeal more to women than to men. But it varies for each picture. Of...
During the night of June 24, 1812 (Hitler started in the night of June 21), Napoleon crossed the Niemen with 363,000 men, the "army of 20 nations," many of them German. Just as the Nazis have a large proportion of mechanized troops, Napoleon had 80.000 cavalry.
These increases put a terrific strain on Jack Towers and his whole organization. For naval aviation in fiscal 1938, Congress appropriated $51,500,000; two years later, $111,459,000. Jack Towers now has the job of spending $1,578,000,000. Stacked against total naval appropriations and authorizations ($13...
There is an urgent awareness in the Navy that the fleets must have more air power, and soon. Of the planes on order last February, 1,221 combat aircraft for Fleet duty had priority over all others-whether for Army or Navy-except those earmarked for the British. The Navy...
Mingo Junction, Idaho, with only a handful of college students from the town may well consider even a mediocre student in Fine Arts worthy of deferment. Brookline, Massachusetts, with almost every young man in college, will have to be much pickier when it comes to exemptions. Secondly, the total number...