Word: cents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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fEstimated per cent of U. S. radio audience...
...orders and hires a force of 500 men and puts them to work making cheese or rolling pins or whatever. . . . Well, what kind of men does he get? Experts on statistics will tell you that a certain percentage are absolutely honest and want to work hard, another per cent will steal anything they can get away with, another group are malcontents, while another section are like Rush Holt, "natural-born hell-raisers." The first thing our owner knows, there is "labor trouble" in the plant and he wonders why. His foremen don't know and his employment experts...
...Since December 1936 they have shrunk from 126% of the pre-War level to 104% of the pre-War level. The present level of farm prices is approximately 30% below that of 1929." Hence, concluded Witness Wallace, U. S. farm income for 1937 fell from five to ten per cent under...
...coefficients of the equations to be solved. A second series is geared together in the ratio of squares, cubes and higher powers. All the roots of an eighth-degree equation can be obtained in a half hour with a limit of error not greater than one or two per cent...
...will probably sell for less than $375. Said he: "It is the solution of the nation's troubles. Get agriculture and industry working hand in hand and that will mean the farmer and workingman are partners. ... I don't care if we can't make a cent of profit. The main thing is to get something started...