Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week President Roosevelt was pleased to hear about a luncheon in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria at which President Bernard F. Gimbel of Gimbel Bros. department store announced the results of a merchandising survey of 40,000 women in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Milwaukee. Eighty-three per cent of the women think the U. S. is on the way out of Depression; over 5% believe they will be better off after the Depression than in their most prosperous years, chiefly because society will benefit from the ''bitter lesson of greed." Over 92% think that society...
...year 1933, in departing into unlamented oblivion, has taken along in its wake a handsome company of notables. The old time elect, the salt of the earth the repositories of 100 per cent Americanism, have departed from the limelight and left only unsavory memories and economic chaos beyond anything Alice might have encountered in Wonderland...
...most part of a cheap grade of alcohol they sell for the perfectly outrageous price of two and a half or three dollars a quart, when the price of straight whiskey delivered to the retailer exclusive of taxes can be as low as one dollar and twenty cents a gallon. Obviously, there is something wrong somewhere, and somebody is making an enormous profit. Figures published yesterday by the Federal government would seem to show that it is the retailer, although God known the diatiller is cutting down his profits to only about four or five hundred per cent. There...
...average salary received by employed graduates of the School is $2,643, with a range from $10,000 to $1150. About 40 per cent of the employed graduates have jobs in New England, about 15 per cent have jobs in New York and New Jersey, 10 per cent are working in the Far West, 15 per cent are working in the Middle West, five per cent are working in the South, and the remainder are employed abroad...
...graduates last year, and from Dr. Smith's statistics there are only eight or ten unemployed, the remainder having secured jobs in another way. The average percentage of teachers placed by normal schools throughout the country last year was 65, whereas the Harvard School of Education placed 85 per cent of its graduates...