Word: fractionation
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Grandfather's inheritance dwindled to a fraction, but Frank expected some day to inherit a share of his father's large fortune. Instead, by the terms of his father's will, he was cut off in 1927 without a penny. The will stipulated that, if he worked at least half the time, he would come into his inheritance of half a million dollars at the age of 65-in 1955. "Imagine my surprise!" he said. "I certainly would not have spent all my money except that I expected to get father's inheritance. Father gave...
...doling out $30 million in Government aid to state agencies to help put the handicapped in jobs. Overall, some 60,000 disabled workers found jobs in industry in 1954, and the U.S. Government estimates that the number will jump 200% by 1959. But this will tap only a fraction of the potential manpower. Many businessmen are frankly reluctant to hire the handicapped because they fear that such workers are prone to injury, will hurt themselves on the job and thus boost insurance compensation rates. The fears are largely groundless. Some state compensation laws make a company responsible for a worker...
Gold uses this motion to show that any departure of the earth from its normal axis makes the earth's material flow plastically. The flowing "damps" the motion and keeps it from continuing for more than a small fraction of 1°. Having proved this to his satisfaction. Gold constructed a high, wide and handsome theory...
...factor in taking pictures of Mars, for instance, is not the efficiency or magnifying power of the telescope. It is the wobbling of the image because of irregularities that are almost always present in the earth's atmosphere. If the plate is exposed for more than a small fraction of a second. the dancing image blurs the picture with movement...
FARM MORTGAGES have soared to the highest point since 1933, with debts of $8 billion, a $500 million increase over a year ago. But property values have climbed so fast, says the Government's Farm Credit Administration, that the debt figure is only a small fraction (about 9%) of the total $90 billion value of U.S. farm real estate (in 1933 the debt was 25% of a $30.7 billion value...