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...Subtract number of X's from 105 to arrive at your score...
Both A.F. of L. and C.I.O. statisticians were impressed. Best they had been able to do was make estimates which they admitted were unsatisfactory. Their method was to take the known number of employed, when they finally got the figure, subtract it from an estimate of the total labor supply. Latest estimates they had were for June, and ranged from C.I.O...
...better because, after all, Britain was an ally and Japan was not. It was also reasonable to refuse to sell Japan more products than Japan could reasonably use for home consumption, since Germany, Japan's ally, was at war with The Netherlands. Furthermore, it was reasonable to subtract from Japan's usable quota the tin and rubber which Japan was getting from French Indo-China. It was reasonable, before accepting Japan's demands for increased immigration quotas, to ask Japan to fill the existing quota (which Japan had so far failed to do by 300 immigrants annually...
Numerals printed in italics are correct answers to the 105 questions in Current Affairs Test. Check them against your answers and mark your errors and omissions with an X. Subtract number of X's from 105 to arrive at your score. For example, if you missed 45 questions, your score would be 105 minus 45, or 60. This is above college average. Do not look at answers until you have finished your answer sheet...
...counting up the strength of sides, military men talk about divisions, the basic, more or less self-contained units which generals add or subtract from armies. In fact divisions figure in their calculations as building blocks figure in the architectural dreams of children. Divisions are only roughly equal in size and strength-in France and Russia there are 18,000 men to a division, in Germany, 15,200; in Poland and England, 12,000. Mechanized divisions are even smaller, but their strength is computed in terms of tanks, armored cars, machine-guns...