Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rental rates at Nutter's are up one cent a mile over last year, but the students accepted the rise without a murmur, said Hooker...
...only to the privilege of hooting at a U.T. grade B, it was to be expected that the new cash and carry rationing plan would call forth a proportional amount of complaints and counter-suggestions. On one point, however, there is no disagreement. With food costs up twenty per cent over last year and the dining halls on the slides toward a $40,000 deficit for the current year, drastic changes are necessary. Either revenues must be increased or costs must be reduced. At a time when the University's entire financial policy is being concentrated on a reduction...
...Marin's (and Tugwell's) pet project of buying up some 200,000 corporate-owned acres of sugar-cane lands, dividing them into tracts of 500 acres or less, then selling them to the hungry, landless jibaros on 40-year terms. So far, not a cent has been spent. Appraisers are still checking over two modest plantations whose owners offered to sell...
...This rationing program was made necessary by the Japanese attack on the Philippines, one of the main sources of supply, which, before December 7 exported annually 1,000,000 tons of sugar to this country, or about 15 per cent of our normal consumption...
...same time industrial production is proceeding "as usual," it is enjoying more than comfortable profits. According to Leon Henderson profits are up 169 per cent over the 1939 level and are still rising. In the first six months of 1941, they increased 33 per cent over those for the similar period the previous year. Even the Wall Street Journal says that profits have increased. There has been a price rise of 14 per cent of which only 7 per cent is due to labor costs, Isidore Lubin, U. S. Labor Commissioner, reported to a Senate committee. Lubin further asserted that...