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...longer will the Harvard Crimson Network broadcast its three and a half hours of recorded music over 830 kilocycles on your radio dial. A newly-born WHCN will present its program a fraction of an inch to the left at 800 kilocycles...
Commodities. The Bureau of Labor Statistics index of commodity prices crept up another fraction of a point, reached 104.9% of the 1926 average-a new wartime highwater mark. As usual, higher prices for foodstuffs contributed most to the rise...
...these parties were only a fraction of those to which the Trumans were invited-and went. By this week the schedule was settling down to a steady canter. The Vice President's office had three dates on the docket, but there were about five more in the offing. High mark was an invitation from Mrs. Evalyn Walsh (Hope Diamond) McLean...
...treaty was sure to run into opposition in the U.S. Senate. California was bitterly opposed. Mexico's share was only a small fraction of the Colorado's water, but California farmers feared increased competition from Texas and Mexico. Much Mexican land on the lower Colorado was as productive (if irrigated) as California's famed Imperial Valley. It might compete with California's cotton and vegetable crop. South Texas raises high-grade citrus fruit and is closer than California to Eastern U.S. markets. California would like to stop that irrigation leak...
...some of the most stinging and salutary talk about prewar blindness, postwar prospects and their causes which has ever reached the timid screen. Its edged, cultivated production and its heartfelt acting-particularly that of brilliant Barbara Mullen-also help to turn the struggle of the protagonists into drama a fraction as searching and noble as the author intended...