Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...volunteer to tutor Boston's high school glads in subjects which will either fit them better for a career or for future college work. Each student professor is responsible for a tutee and instructs his one-man class in his own rooms one night a week. Twelve per cent of the men given instruction by the growing Undergraduate Faculty eventually end up in college, a high figure considering the unfavorable financial position of most...
...vote, in which 87 per cent of those eligible took part, was a landslide of 462 to 143 in favor of the national organization. The question under consideration was not that of a closed shop, but whether the employees favored collective union representation. Now that the C.I.O. has won, negotiators for a contract will consider such a possibility...
...food supply last week. Last month bushy-browed, eagle-beaked Minister of Food Frederick James Marquis, Baron Woolton, promised that rationing would be relaxed. Last week he explained his promise: U.S. food is pouring into Britain. U.S. Lend-Lease supplies now provide Britain with five or six per cent of her total foodstuffs, a full 25% of her animal proteins. Greater quantities are expected...
...this poll is compared with that of the CRIMSON taken last February, a decided shift in opinion at Harvard is revealed. At that time only one-twentieth of the students favored outright war, and as a matter of fact, by a 51 to 49 per cent margin, the undergraduates believed we should not go to war no matter what the circumstances. But only 16.4 per cent thought we could stay out, and 62.5 per cent said we would be in the war eventually...
...climbed steadily since August, 1939, the month chosen by the Bureau as the index month for prices. During two weeks last August, when the Committee was energetically, but unproductively, listening to testimony on the bill, the average price of all these commodities bounded upward by more than 50 per cent. And by-mid-September the price index had risen to 157. In other words, we're paying nearly two-thirds more for what we buy today than we did for the same products when the present defense emergency began...