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...half of the $100,000,000 issue was snapped up almost as quickly in London, Paris, Tokyo, Berlin, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Budapest. The stabilized Belgian franc, now quoted in units of five francs known as belgas, promptly mounted to a fraction over sterling...
...There will be a change in air mail postage rates when the Government-operated routes are taken over by private contractors. The proposed plan would fix a flat rate of ten cents per half ounce or fraction thereof. This basis would greatly reduce charges on long hauls, but would increase the postage for short distances on letters or packages weighing more than half an ounce...
There had been a premature announcement of Dr. Coolidge's ray and tube, saying that they were so powerful they would completely disintegrate the body of a mouse in a fraction of a second's exposure. Dr. Coolidge did not verify this report, but the Franklin Institute members heard of or witnessed the following...
Fruit flies and other insects withered under a fraction of a second's exposure, soon died. A rubber-plant leaf oozed white latex from millions of tiny punctures at one short dose...
...greater part established and maintained by endowments. The names of the donors are in most cases perpetuated in the titles of the professorships. Some of the benefactions which were bestowed many years ago, although they were considered ample at that time, now amount to only a small fraction of what the professors receive...