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Money Matters. The Council voted to ask contributing members (invaded countries' do not contribute) for another $1.8 billion, equal to one percent of their national incomes. This, it thought, might permit UNRRA to finish its job in Europe by the end of next year and in Asia a few months later...
This diagram merely illustrates the principle on which the atomic bomb works, not the specific processes occurring in the bombs dropped on Japan. Actually, there is no need for a reaction multiplying as fast as that shown above. An increase of a few percent of neutrons in each cycle is enough to do the trick...
Programs & Credits. Shrivenham's students are enrolled for eight weeks, a term approximating a summer session in the U.S. Ten percent of them are to be officers, 10% Negroes. The average program includes three hours of classwork a day, five days a week, and two hours of compulsory sports a week. Regular classwork will be supplemented with field trips and with lectures by visiting professors...
...statistical note for the Wolfboro Daily Bugle: Ernie Hyne's recent defection from the ranks of the bachelors brings our class average up to 19 percent, not quite the 60 per cent once predicted. Thus far there have been no announced contributions to the figure of "nine-tenths per family." Don't despair yet, Professor Hanson...
Realizing that she could not meet her bonded debt. Miss Roche in 1939 asked bondholders to extend the maturity date ten years. Ninety-three percent agreed. Four years later, some of the others sued for principal and accrued interest. In 1944, beaten Josephine Roche filed a petition of bankruptcy...