Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anyhow. But nevertheless, Califonians chose for Convention delegates a set of Coolidge nien in preference to a delegation for Hiram W. Johnson, native son. The vote was in about a 6-5 proportion. On the same day, Indiana showed its preference for Coolidge over Johnson by a 6-1 ratio. The Republican Utah State Convention gave Coolidge its eleven delegates. Nevada pledged nine delegates. A few more states were yet to be heard from, but as far as the Republicans were concerned, the pre-Convention struggle was surely past with Johnson's debacle in his home state-the state...
...conviction of experts that "the next war will be decided in the air" would appear to be an even more cogent argument for the granting of sufficient appropriations. In case of a national emergency the 5-5-3 naval ratio which Congress has promised to investigate may prove far less decisive than the condition of the United States air forces...
Twenty-six to one, an astonishing ratio of surplus to capital...
...receivable, etc.; and $20 million good will. The large cash item also includes securities, patent rights and trademarks. As against these, the liabilities consist of $17 million capital stock; $71 million accounts payable; $37 million reserve for Federal taxes, etc.; $442 million in profit and loss surplus. The astonishing ratio of surplus to capital-26-1- is probably unequalled by any other company in this country if not in the world...
...lowest expansion ratio of any solid known. A tube of it one yard long, heated to 3,200 degrees Fahrenheit, increased but 1/50 inch in length. Platinum increases 1/3 inch when subjected to the same heat, and copper 3/5 inch. President S.W. Stratton, of M.I. T., former director of the Bureau of Standards, believes that all standards of length will now be made of fused quartz instead of platinum...