Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry W. Peabody's latest attack indicts the Democratic congressmen who hope to pass a bill legalizing three or four per cent beer as a revenue measure which will give the Federal Treasury $200,000,000 annually. "To insure such revenue," said Mrs. Peabody, "would compel everybody, men, women, and children, to drink several gallons of beer weekly." This single sentence will suffice to make her a national figure...
With little prejudice Mrs. Peabody obtained the statistics of pre-prohibition drunkenness. Ninety per cent, she found, were intoxicated by beer which Congress may legalize again. With logical reasoning one infers that if everyone, including the innocent children, must drink several gallons a week, since the mathematical odds favor the capacity of the saloon habitue as compared to the post-war drinker, more than ninety per cent of the people would be drunk every week. Continuing in this vein, if only about ten per cent were left to manufacture the beer, it is doubtful if they could supply the consumers...
Reports received from most of the universities in the United States, as compared with those of last year, indicate a drop in enrollment of 4.5 per cent for full-time students, and of 7 per cent in total enrollment. The figures for this year, however, are slightly higher than the corresponding ones for 1927, so that the level has been substantially maintained, fluctuations disregarded. Furthermore, there is reason to believe that the attendance at Junior colleges has increased as that at the universities has decreased. Regarding the situation broadly, the institutions of higher learning are little affected by the depression...
...addition to more than 25,000 doctors above the necessary number, the committee has also found that there is a mal-distribution of physicians, with only 10 per cent practicing in small towns...
...making the twelve per cent cut in House room rents announced yesterday, University authorities have in large measure followed the recommendations made at the end of last year by the Student Council in a special report on "Student Expenses, Aids, and Employment...