Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This appointment launches the project of the creation of a centralized purchasing department for municipal supplies and equipment. By this action, Cambridge becomes the sixth city in Massachusetts to adopt this system, which is expected to save about 15 per cent of the total cost of city's purchases...
...Roosevelt succeeds in bringing to head only 50 per cent of the projects such he has started in the first year his term, he is sure to be reelected in 36," said Edwin C. Hill, noted news writer and radio talker, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. "At present he is the number one here in the United States, and with any luck he should hold is position until after the at elections...
...three per cent of the American people who pay all the income taxes to the Federal Government have a new worry. When will Uncle Sam descend on the taxpayer who may have thought he was making an longest but who now must prove its count that it was no fraudulent intent or go to jail...
...American Metal loan was first considered by British banks. This raises an interesting question of foreign competition for gilt-edged loans. Foreign banks are not under the control of the Securities Act. Should American banks stand by and see 6 per cent, loans go to other countries? Naturally they want to make money by lending it and with the bond market stagnant and relatively few good bonds available except at low yields, the banks are looking toward 6 per cent, loans as promising them a chance to overcome these last three years of meager return...
...business men who came here. The figures gathered by the National Industrial Conference Board in a survey of plants covering more than 2,585,000 workers showed that employee representation was more popular among manufacturing and mining industries especially than outside unions. The tabulation showed 45 per cent for employee representation or company unions as against 10 per cent for organized labor of the A. F. of L. type. The balance favored individual negotiation...