Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact remains, however, that Yale lacks a half million dollars of meeting expenses, and that a ten per cent budget cut will have to be imposed upon all departments of the university. Classes given every year will for a time be offered only in alternate years; small class sections will be combined to form larger ones: and the lower instructing staff will be slightly decreased. Thus, though the permanent faculty may escape, the burden will fall upon a few young instructors and upon the student body, which will be offered a less ambitious program of instruction...
...store, however, is making profit enough" asserted the manager, "to be able to pay the same dividends that were declared last July, that is ten per cent on cash purchases and eight per cent on charge accounts. $89,000 was distributed among 9,238 members after the stockholder's meeting last October...
...Every department has experienced an appreciable decline in the volume of business and general conditions have made necessary drastic reductions in prices amounting to 40 and 50 per cent. Although it is difficult to estimate the purchasing power represented by one dollar in a store that carries such widely different commodities as furniture, books and personal articles, one and one-half times as much merchandise can be obtained...
...republic from serious political and economic disorders. His long-heralded program, signed by President von Hindenburg and issued on Dec. 8, contains the following drastic provisions: House rents and the prices of standardized articles controlled by the cartels, including coal, iron and potash, are to be cut 10 per cent. Other cartel agreements are declared void. A price commissioner, who will see that the intended reductions in prices are really effected, is appointed. Official salaries in the Reich, the States and the communes are cut 9 per cent, effecting a saving estimated at $20,000,000. Wages are reduced...
Interest rates on loans, bonds and mortgages, public and private, up to 8 per cent, are cut to 6 per cent; and those above 8 per cent are cut by a quarter to one half. The Lombard rate (interest on security loans) is reduced from 10 to 9 per cent. Parallel with these reductions, the Reichsbank is to lower its discount rate from 8 to 7 per cent. Landowners are protected against forced auction sales by the provision that no bid under 70 per cent of the property's valuation need be accepted. Some taxes are reduced but the turnover...