Word: fractionation
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Glider Crackup. Suddenly our pilot reached up, hesitated a fraction of a second, then smacked the tow release lever. With a twang like a snapped harp string, the long white towing cable vanished. The pounding thunder of air dropped to a murmur...
However much electioneering capital may be made of the fact that the Ruml plan "forgives" the rich (as well as the poor) a year's income taxes, the fact remains that taxes on all incomes over $25,000 a year comprise only a fraction of the estimated $9,275,000,000 to be forgiven. And because the war has increased most U.S. incomes, the Senate bill will net the Treasury this year an estimated $2,000,000,000 more revenue than it would receive under the old system of collecting this year's taxes on last year...
...Hoosier State's Hall of Fame. After Willkie's book began nearing the million mark in the sales column . . . Indiana has decided to accept him as a prophet at home, since he has become one to the rest of the world. His book will be the third non-fraction book since 1901 to sell over a million copies...
...France, the Burma Road was the only road into China, and imports over it were lifted to an unsatisfactory maximum of 14,000 tons in November 1941. Then it, too, was lost. Since then the air supply route "over the hump" from Assam has given China only a fraction of even the Burma Road's trickle...
...cold-shouldered neutral Argentina. As a result Argentina's reserves of gold and foreign currency stood at 2.2 billion pesos at the end of 1942, by last week were up to 2.5 billion as gold and exchange flowed in to balance her export surplus. But an important fraction of this increase came from speculators-particularly European refugees wise in the ways of foreign exchange-anxious to convert from dollars (which Argentina cannot convert into U.S. goods) into pesos (which rose in terms of dollars...