Word: fractionation
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...Stafford well knew, Jinnah is not the spokesman for India's Moslems; his League actually represents only a small fraction of them. In the 1937 election the League won only 104 of the 480 seats reserved for Moslems in the eleven Provincial Assemblies; of 7,000,000 Moslem voters, only 300,000 voted the League ticket. Jinnah's importance is that he epitomizes the Moslems' fear of the Hindus?and this religious civil strife is the chief obstacle to Sir Stafford's mission...
...when she put "Woman of the Year" on celluloid. The combination should have been a sure-fire-blue-ribbon-on-the-nose-double-or-quits royal straight flush. But somehow two and two doesn't seem to make four in the theatre world. It makes a small fraction of one, called "Without Love...
...Jenny's transport successor has one clinching, convincing argument in her own right: she can be turned out in a fraction of the time and for a fraction of the cost of an aluminum plane, not to mention a total saving of aluminum...
...auto dealers last week were hotter than Model-T radiators. They have been selling only a fraction of the number of new cars OPA's quotas allow-and total cars available in 1942 are only 9% of last year's sales. The National Automobile Dealers Association made a cross-country check of 9,000 local rationing boards, was shocked to find new-car sales even worse than most dealers figured. In the first 20-25 days of rationing, not a single new car was sold in Sioux Falls, S.D., Lewiston, Idaho, Council Bluffs, Iowa, many other towns...
While many corporations seem superficially to be making big money, there is more than one reason why stockholders see only a fraction of it. First, up to 72% of 1941 earnings on stockholders' property were taken in Federal corporation taxes (a levy from which bondholders escape scot-free). Another large hunk is often set aside for special reserves. Sometimes the desire to escape excess-profits taxes may be behind these reserves, but no man can tell, until he knows how bad the war and post-war world will be, whether corporations are being too conservative-or not conservative enough...