Word: fractionation
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...annual convention in Manhattan last week, the American Newspaper Publishers' Association looked over a room full of new labor-saving printing gadgets. Among them: a Fairchild photoelectric engraver that made cheap cuts of plastic in a fraction of the time required for the present zinc engraving. If VariTyping could be combined with a quick and cheap engraving process, then the newspaper of the future might be "printed" without printers. The publishers voted to spend $280,000 for research on new printing processes...
Little Mammal, What Now? Even if the bomb falls, muses Author Toynbee there is still a grain of hope. The people most likely .to survive and to be capable of salvaging "some fraction of the present heritage of mankind" are the Negrito pygmies of Central Africa -a race "said by our anthropologists to have an unexpectedly pure and lofty conception of the nature of God and of God's relation...
...week began hopefully, with the first 2,000,000-share day in nearly a year. But the activity drove prices up less than a point (the Dow-Jones industrial average rose .54, to 173.66). Next day trading eased to 1,160,000 shares, and prices fell off a fraction. At week's end, the market was still marking time...
...Russians removed much of Anshan's movable equipment; the Nanking government was never able to restore production to more than a fraction of what it had been. For China, Anshan had remained just a promise. This week, the promise, like most of Manchuria, belonged to others...
Recently I heard a young doctor say: "I cannot understand how the American people can pour millions of dollars a year into funeral wreaths, and yet hesitate at giving a fraction of that amount for cancer research." Your article on funeral extravagances spurs me to pass along a relevant suggestion...