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...whose primary military assignment is to move soldiers and supplies to distant battlefields and trouble spots. Because MATS does not fire missiles or drop bombs, and because its main chore is to move and service ground forces, it has become a sort of stepchild, limps along on a small fraction of the Air Force's $18 billion budget...
When his postwar rayon market faded as low-priced nylon came out and consumer tastes shifted, he bought his way into cottons and nylon hosiery. From 1952 to 1958 Love bought 18 key companies-often for a mere fraction of their real values. Last week, eying a new market, he was close to closing a deal to buy a major maker of carpets...
...Bishop Pike has implemented the only hopeful method to achieve the next major objective in church union-mutually recognized ministerial standing among the various Protestant churches. It is based upon the assumption that the orders of any particular church, however "valid" are "incomplete," since they represent only a fraction of the total tradition and riches of Christendom...
...commuter pays only a fraction of the cost," says the Central's Main, "and he doesn't see why he should pay more." But the commuter may soon have to change his thinking. The longer he resists fare hikes, the worse his lot may become...
...average caponette weighs 2,500 gm. (about 5½ Ibs.). So, by the FDA's top-hazard figures, a roast-caponette fancier would get only a minute fraction of a milligram of stilbestrol if he ate all the skin fat and liver. Medical doses of stilbestrol for human patients cover a wide range beginning at .1 mg. daily, but often run to 15 mg. daily, and may go as high...