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...With a balmy spring breeze to hinder him in the stretch and a jivey Texas Longhorn band to egg him along, Kansan Wes Santee ran his first outdoor mile of the season at the Texas relays, broke his own American record by one-tenth of a second, edged up within a stride of the four-minute mile. His time...
...Nine-tenths of the $2,553,236 in capital gifts was in the form of restricted funds given to endow existing enterprises. Less than one-tenth was unrestricted...
...deposits are located in gigantic salt domes, which can be mined by the Frasch process, the cheapest method known. (Superheated water is pumped into the ground to liquefy the sulphur, which is then pumped to the surface.) Costs range from $7 to $20 per ton, as low as one-tenth the cost of other methods, and far cheaper than the world market price...
...West has been underestimating its own relative strength. The report does not touch upon Red China, but other sources estimate the G.N.P. of that country at a mere $35 billion. Since that must first sustain 580 million Chinese, it is doubtful if Red China has available for military purposes one-tenth of what the U.S. is now spending for arms...
...There Can Be More IN the high-flying air world, one fledgling that has yet to find its wings is the air-freight business. Of 120 new lines that hopefully started up at the end of World War II, more than 50% went bust. Last year U.S. air freighters flew only 284 million ton-miles of cargo, a 3% gain over 1953, but barely one-tenth of 1% of the total cargo business...