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...Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, her daughter-in-law, and to her five grandchildren, Mrs. Roosevelt left one-tenth of her estate, to be divided in six equal parts. To St. James Church she gave $5,000. The rest of her estate she bequeathed "unto my beloved son, Franklin D. Roosevelt, forever...
...death rate is lowest for children at the age of ten and rises thereafter with age. If it did not increase, the national death rate would be only one-tenth as great as it is now. Said Pathologist Henry Swain Simms of Columbia: If the death rate remained at its lowest (one in 800 at the age of ten) man's life expectancy could be 550 years. Aging, the biochemists think, is essentially a chemical process and can probably be influenced if scientists learn enough about it. One way to learn more, Professor Simms suggested, is to apply known...
...tons short of the 200,000,000-ton goal for the year. This was too much for Bevan. He knew that 75,000 miners had left the pits in the last year, that the Army had taken 50,000 of them. He knew also that less than one-tenth of them had been replaced by drafted labor, that the Army had refused to release miner-soldiers when coal production dropped alarmingly...
Because they can carry oil for one-third pipeline and one-tenth tank-car costs, tankers normally carry 90% of the 1,500,000 bbl. used each day on the Atlantic seaboard. When the first 50 tankers went, oilmen tightened their belts by speedups in tanker service, heavier loading, greater use of pipeline and rail. The loss of 100 more tankers would cut the daily intercoastal tanker haul to less than 600,000 bbl. This is a chasm no stopgap methods can bridge...
...should broadcast twenty-four hours, in French and German, on the most powerful beam to Europe," the professor remarked. "Over and over we should repeat the facts of our defense effort. We should continuously ship into Europe quantities of printed material, even if only one-tenth of it reached its destination...