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...outburst was caused by a 10-to-1 stock split, National Lead offering ten shares of a new $10 par common for each share of the $100 common now held. From an arithmetical standpoint, a stock split 10-for-1 should emerge with the new shares selling at one-tenth the price of the old. The market, however, reacted enthusiastically to a split-up which reminded traders of 1929'S happiest days. National Lead also announced 1935 earnings of $5,261,000, best since 1929, and lead prices were rising in a busy market for the metal...
...Though the occasion was its Soth anniversary, Sears devoted less than one-tenth of 1% of the catalog to talking about itself, "which might be a good proportion to keep in mind...
Begun three years ago as a convenience to men who were unable to enter the Business School at the regular time in September, the Extra Session has steadily grown in popularity. About one-tenth of the men in the Extra Session are over 30 years of ago, and usually have had previous business experience. Men who graduate from colleges which operate on the "quarter" plan instead of the "somester" plan are enabled to begin graduate work without loss of time...
Slick-haired young Dr. Aristid von Grosse, research chemist of Chicago's Universal Oil Products Co., created a stir at a chemistry convention summer before last by exhibiting a speck, weighing one-tenth of a gram, of pure protoactinium which he had isolated. It was the first of the 92 elements to be isolated in the U. S. and this crumb constituted the world supply. Last week Dr. von Grosse created another stir by revealing that the world supply of protoactinium had unfortunately disappeared...
...week, two more kinds of ice are formed, one of which can be made hotter than boiling water without melting. Professor Bridgman reasoned that even more fundamental changes might occur in his materials if he could squeeze and twist them at the same time. Therefore instead of letting the vertically opposed cylinders (1¼ in. in diameter) compress the substance directly, he inserted between them a flat, hard steel block, ground microscopically smooth on its upper and lower sides. Between the block surfaces and the cylinder faces are placed specks (one-tenth gram or less) of the stuff...