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With city aid slashed to $80,000 a year and only slender endowments of its own, the Philadelphia Museum scrapes along on an operating budget of around $150,000, one-tenth the budget of Manhattan's Metropolitan, which alone among U. S. museums rivals it in size. But it has kept up its building program, now has no galleries open...
...Steel production, down for eight consecutive weeks, this week leveled off to 64.7% (up one-tenth of 1%), still ran about 50% ahead of new buying, mostly hand to mouth...
...Ulenmen were shunted out of the competition in the century dur- ing the qualifying heats. Curwen's 54 flat effort was just one-tenth of a second over the qualifying limit...
Answer: "In the course of the last 20 years, France has had to absorb a refugee population of Russians, Italians, Jews, Germans, Austrians, Spaniards and Czechs, amounting to nearly 4,000,000 - one-tenth of the total population. . . . To compare the fate of these refugees to that of liberals in Germany, Russia or Spain today is nonsense...
Didn't get time last week to really say one-tenth of what should and could be said about Duke Ellington and his band. He was out at Briggs and Briggs last week for one of these record signing sessions, and besides amazing the various bystanders with some excellent piano, he pulled the following honey. (He had been previously declaiming against the present trend towards commercialism in jazz, and had said that all the big bands were playing "commercial." He was asked if this were true, why was it that his band had been able to go along...