Word: cent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indication of the scholastic superiority of this year's Freshman class to that of last year is given in figures released yesterday at University Hall. According to statistics compiled by Dean Hanford, 27.1 per cent of the Class of 1931 had unsatisfactory records at mid-years last year, whereas only 17.1 per cent of the Class of 1932 experienced a similar situation...
Other statistics given out yesterday reveal a number of interesting facts in regard to the Freshman Class. The compilations show that of the 853 students entering the class of 1932, 485 were graduates of private preparatory schools and 368 of public high schools, or 57 and 43 per cent...
...March he called a special session of the Legislature to prepare new tax measures. Instead it prepared for his impeachment. Louisiana is, among other things, an oil state, with many a refinery for its own production and for shipments from Mexico and South America. Governor Long proposed a 5 cent tax upon every barrel of refined oil and gasoline. Unsentimental businessmen rose to curse him with the charge that he was inflicting the state with a manufacturers' tax which would drive industry out of Louisiana. The Long oil tax caused the impeachment explosion. He was charged with: 1) Using...
...letter Mrs. Christie said that she, like her radical Congressman father, is opposed to "the system which has fostered the present great concentration of wealth in the hands of a small per cent of the population." That was the big news: the fact that there is actually alive a child of the late Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. who opposes what he called the Money Trust! That was the electric, potent shock which set editors editing, rotos rotating...
...production of 208,000,000 Ibs., its estimated earnings were $10,000,000. This disproportionate increase is a result of recent rises in the price of copper. The average price received for its product in 1928 was 14.76? a pound. At the same rate of production, for every one-cent rise in copper prices earnings should increase $2,000,000. Now copper is in the neighborhood of 20? a pound. If the average for 1929 should be 19?, the earnings of Phelps Dodge would be $18,000,000. In proportion to the increased earnings dividend declarations have been stepped...