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...Half the Korean peak (80,000), one-tenth World War IIs highest level. † Other countries with major U.S. Army units: West Germany 225,000, South Korea 50,000, France 16,000, Dominican Republic 7,000, Italy 5,000, Japan...
...Atomic Energy Commission is now studying the CEA request for $1 million to build the apparatus. Because this is less than one-tenth the cost of earlier plans submitted by the CEA--and by other laboratories--the commission is believed likely to accept...
...Music Department is beginning a major fund drive to meet the high cost of the expansion. At present, the Department holds only one-tenth of the necessary funds, Pirotta said...
...aluminum industry is only a sacrificial symbol of Lyndon Johnson's wider war on inflation, which he feels he must wage to keep the economy healthy and to restore the balance of payments. The aluminum industry-one twenty-third the size of construction and one-tenth the size of automaking-is unlikely to cause an inflationary spiral by itself. Even some Government economists concede that the industry has as good a case as any for higher prices: it is earning a mere 4.9% on its investment, is running at 100% of its 2,700,000-ton capacity. Its price...
...Western U.S., for example, where the Federal Government has spent nearly $21.5 billion on water development, the price of subsidized irrigation water is unrealistically low-from one-third to one-tenth of the actual cost of delivering it. Says University of Washington Law Professor Ralph W. Johnson, an authority on the legal and economic problems of water: "It is time we stopped thinking about water as a unique commodity, governed by novel rules outside the ordinary economic pattern. It is no more unique than food, clothing or shelter...