Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sheriff to ignore the court order. Cautious Sheriff Thomas J. Wilcox simply refused to budge. To enforce a similar ouster against only 100 sit-downers, armed with meat hooks and cleavers, in the Newton Packing Co. plant, the sheriff figured he would need 600 deputies. In the same ratio, an army of 36,000 would be required to overcome the Chrysler sitters. Harmless were the big manifolds which, mocking the National Guard one-pounders wheeled out for the G. M. strike, they set up to look like cannon (see cut). Far from innocuous were the clubs and blackjacks with which...
...stay. Their Washington job-to put & keep Franklin Roosevelt in the White House- was done, and private business was ready to bid high for their talents. Slated to become president of a Manhattan insurance company Emil Hurja should improve his present $10,000-per-year salary by a ratio considerably better than...
...Friday selling a reflection on Government credit. What the bond market showed, clearly, concisely, was growing apprehension over the course of inflation. With inflation come higher interest rates, and the cost of money and the price of bonds, whose rate of retirement is fixed, work in an inflexible inverse ratio. The current downward trend in bonds set in just about the time the Federal Reserve Board was getting set to cut excess bank reserves for the second time, a move which was sure to boost short-term if not long-term interest rates...
...will doubtlessly delight the "bigger-and-better" gentlemen, but should make all those interested in the quality of our education stop and reflect. In England, which has a population of forty-three million, there are approximately forty-six thousand students in the institutions of higher learning. In France the ratio is somewhat higher. In this country, on the other hand, eight hundred thousand out of a population of one hundred and seventeen million were attending the universities...
...approximately the same as Eddington's 10 39 . The square of the universe's age would therefore be equal to Eddington's other figure, 10 78 . Armed with these two fine coincidences, Dirac next proposed to dispense with the giant numbers and simply say that the ratio of electrical to gravitational force between proton and electron equals t, the age of the universe, and the amount of universal matter equals t². But the universe is not getting any younger. Thus the values dependent on t and t² are not constants at all, but get bigger...