Word: cents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to support the schools of another may be a breach of state autonomy, but it is the only means of preserving to rural America a vestige of public education. The Southeast cannot support schools of the standard set elsewhere. In 1930 its farm population included 13 per cent of the nation's children, but its farmers produced only two per cent of the nation's income. If the youth of rural America are to have equality in education, the Harrison Bill is their only hope...
...will be made in 561 towns and cities. SEC itself will concentrate on ten "representative" cities.* Already well under way, the job is to be finished by June 1. Said Jerome Frank: "We want to drench ourselves in facts." A sample question small businessmen will be asked: What per cent of your inventories have you borrowed against...
Probably the most interesting question the Survey has thus far put to students is the "ism" problem. On this issue fifty-six per cent voted a preference for Communism over Fascism. The result of this poll may have tremendous repercussions. For, if the new generation maintains its bias toward the extreme. Left, red-baiting will rapidly lose its place as the premier American political sport. Instead of trying to locate the root of all evil in Moscow, the Dies Committees of the future will have to orient their accusing fingers to Berlin or Rome. The "red menace" will become...
...Trustee William J. Wardall declared: "The indictment . . . should in no way impair the continued public confidence in the administration of McKesson & Robbins, Inc., whose business is progressing soundly towards full recovery." McKesson's net sales for February, said Trustee Wardall, were up nearly three quarters of one per cent from February...
...last night that since the truce on March 15 between the University and 400 strike-hungry employees the union membership had swelled substantially. "As far as the cooks are concerned, we have automatically a closed shop." He said that enrollment in the waitresses' local was rapidly nearing 100 per cent of those on Harvard's payroll...