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Income from agriculture dropped by 50 percent between 1929 and 1932, and one-fifth of the state’s population was on public relief.
They have one-fifth the incidence of hip fracture of Americans.
Which would be of no small interest to the U.S. economy--the Times and Wall Street Journal each point out that Latin America now accounts for one-fifth of all U.S. exports.
Measured by investment, only about one-fifth of the 10% is invested in innovative products (Love 2003a).
The coalition recently laid off one-fifth of its staff.