Word: cent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Berger's solution of the situation is to buy out the trusts. In this way they would come under public ownership, and all public utilities necessary for the welfare and life of the nation would eventually come into the hands of the people, over 70 per cent, of whom belong to the working class...
...over $400,000. In membership there has been a gain of 118 over the corresponding figure for a year ago. The report also showed a slight decline in operating expenses, while the ratio of gross profits has been maintained. There is every probability, therefore, that the usual 9 per cent. dividend will be declared at the end of this year's business, with a chance that it will be raised to 10 per cent...
...University has purchased, through the Co-operative, books, printing paper, stationery, and other supplies amounting to about $15,000. A careful record of the saving made by the purchasing agency arrangement has been kept, from which it appears that this amounted, on the average, to about 9 per cent. on all stationery supplies...
...graduates of public and private schools in scholarship at Harvard is not a very accurate method of judging the ability of these schools even in the field of developing scholars, leaving aside the question of their ability in producing useful and efficient citizens. While from 90 to 95 per cent, of the men at a boarding school usually go to college, the worst scholars along with the best, quite a different condition obtains at the high schools. There, many leave to go directly to work, while those who enter College are men of intellectual ability above the average, if they...
Economically the negro has made remarkable progress. In the last ten years, the number of negro farmers has increased 19 per cent., while the increase of white farmers is only 9 per cent. Again, at the time of Lincoln's emancipation proclamation only 3 per cent. of the negroes in the United States could read or write, whereas now over 57 per cent. can,--a higher average than many countries of Europe can boast...