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...present time the average cost of binding each volume is about $1.50; only one-tenth of this cost is accounted for by materials, however, the rest going for labor, overhead, etc. Because poor materials save only a few cents per volume and are more difficult to work with, the Bindery invariably uses top-notch goods...
...electrodes are pads of soft rubber sponge covered with interlacing bands of thin copper strip, and are attached to a small electric transformer and timing device. A current of 70 to 100 volts is passed from one side of the patient's head to the other for about one-tenth of a second...
...make a wonderfully nourishing and relatively cheap food for poultry, hatchery fish, market frogs, terrapin. Everybody knows that chickens like worms. Dr. Oliver has devised what he calls an "intensive range" poultry diet-sprouted grain mixed with worms and worm-egg capsules. Fed on this at a cost of one-tenth of a cent a day, pullets start laying Grade A hen's eggs before they are five months old. Wizard Oliver also sells worm casts for fertilizer, and a liquid nutrient (for flower growers) which is made by letting water drip through worm casts in boxes...
...hearty body: a jai alai court, swimming pool, tennis court, club house with reducing machine, paths winding among citrus trees and flower beds, Turkish bath, barbershop, and seven residences for family and guests. Last week this estate was put up for sale for 52,000 pesos ($10,842), about one-tenth its assessed value. The sale and the cheap price symbolized the decline of a hope: the estate was the property of General Juan Andreu Almazan, defeated candidate for the Presidency of Mexico...
...stocks of the conquered territories. Her own synthetic industry was good for 600,000 tons yearly; Poland added an annual 530,000 tons. But Germany needed at least 12,500,000 tons of oil a year for total war. Even the complete output of the Rumanian oil fields (production: one-tenth of Texas') would supply only about a half of presumed needs. Technology-bound Russia, Europe's largest producer, could do it-if the Nazis supplied the equipment and technical assistance to reorganize her oil industry and transport That would probably be a two-year...