Word: fractionation
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...three minutes these three eights surged down the course, and at the finish their relative positions had not changed a fraction of a millimeter. With all 24 men pulling in unison, Bolles said that a shot could have been fired between the seven and eight men without anyone's being injured. And so the College championship still remains to be settled...
...blessing. Major Maderis committed the War Department to a policy of breaking up big orders into their smallest workable units to help spread them to cities like Toledo. Taub told the manufacturers that it was "hope less to come to Washington in twos and threes, each presenting a small fraction of the major problem." But he promised that Toledo could count on defense orders as soon as it got organized as a single factory -machine shop under one roof, punch presses under another...
...Many an investor who had paid hard cash for securities would have his return on his actual investment cut far below 6% -perhaps to a fraction of 1%-for securities are bought at prices based on their earnings; but the amount of profits a company would be allowed to keep would depend on the number of dollars previous investors had once put into the business...
...weeks ago, were still stacked high around courthouses and fire stations. To satisfy them, the Office of Civilian Defense announced that 6,700,000 Ib. of the estimated 14,000,000 collected had "moved toward defense production." By "moved," OCD meant allocated to specific smelters. Actually only a fraction of this amount had been taken away...
Beef powder. Broadcast BBC last week: "Mr. J. B. Cramsie, former chairman of Australia's Meat Council, declared that this meat powder might solve Britain's meat storage and transport problem . . . as it needs no refrigeration and takes only a fraction of the cargo space needed for untreated meat...