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They raced under the wire as one. An unreal silence fell. Finally the photofinish camera revealed the truth: Noor had beaten Citation again, by the thinnest fraction of a nose. The time: 2:52 4/5, a new American record for the mile and three quarters...
...outstanding achievement was the discovery of the liver treatment for pernicious anemia in 1926. Not only did he realize that a liver diet could reduce the seriousness of this red-blood cell deficiency, but he spend many years extracting the effective fraction of liver and making it commercially available for the medical profession...
...Germany, the blue dismissal envelopes are going out to workers in factories and shops at the rate of 15,000 a day. Five hundred thousand Germans have been added to the unemployment rolls in the past two months; more than one worker in ten is now jobless. Only a fraction of the unemployment figures can be accounted for by the refugees from the Soviet zone, and ex-P.W.s coming home from Soviet prison camps. With a few exceptions (e.g., coal mines and steel mills), almost every industry has had to let workers go. Businessmen say: "Customers just aren...
Designing one is not easy. The sun has plenty of time, but a man-made fusion reaction must take place during the small fraction of a second while the temperature generated by the fissioning uranium is still high enough. All the ingredients must be ready to react instantaneously...
Flight Abroad. Jan thus took the empire over for a fraction of its worth and continued to run it, with the help of Thomas Jr., until 1939. Then, just before the Nazis took over Czechoslovakia, both fled the country. Thomas went to Canada, where he started a huge new Bata factory at "Batawa" near Frankford, Ont.; Jan came to the U.S., where he started a factory at Belcamp, Md. Muska had also fled, taking the Leader shares with him, but telling neither Jan nor Thomas about them. Not until 1942 did Muska privately reveal the existence of the shares...