Word: cents
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...cent of the Sophomore, Junior, and Senior classes have failed to return this year for one national emergency reason or another. This is not only true for Harvard, but for Yale, and even lesser colleges like Princeton. In fact, it is probably fair to say that this percentage is the average death rate for institutions of higher learning all over the United States...
Nobody knows exactly how many students will sign their way through Memorial Hall in the two days of registration still to come, but most estimates allow for at least a 10 per cent drop in last year's enrollment and place the total around the 7,000 mark. The Law School, which registered last Monday, is expected to suffer the greatest loss of any branch of the University--with last year's figure of 1,248 predicted to shrink...
...Nichols, called "One Hundred Per Cent" because of his policy of keeping his First National Bank of Englewood, Ill. on a 100% liquid basis, hated the New Deal with a glacial hate. To depositors he said: "Go bury your money in a tomato can in your vegetable garden." He quit making loans, spurned new checking accounts, wrote down $24,000 of Federal Reserve stock to 10?, and siphoned out of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank some $2,500,000-most of his bank's reserve-which he stuffed in deposit boxes. Increasingly bitter and violent about the New Deal...
...throughout. Items in FORTUNE'S indictment: Spending. "We have authorized or appropriated $46.9 billion. . . . Contracts let came to only $21 billion; and the sums disbursed - for war goods received - came to $7 billion. After a little over one year ... we have succeeded in ... diverting a pitiful few per cent of our national income to the job of maintaining our sovereign strength. And only about $100,000,000 worth of the supplies were lend-lease goods that could help England...
...three .days they returned a verdict that made 5,000 people very sad: none of the litigating Stricklands was a descendant of the right Wilson Strickland; the Vinces had no legal claim. Result: Humble Oil and its associates controlled the property, would not have to pay the claimants a cent...