Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...normally worth about one-fifth of a cent...
...move has obviously been made for the purpose of tarring non-interventionist activities at Harvard with the Communist stick. The Harvard Committee Against Military Intervention has not, of course, been approached, for it is a middle-of-the-road group and represents about three-fourths of the 51 per cent at Harvard who, according to the Crimson poll, are opposed to intervention. We invite the F. B. I. to investigate us--but at the same time we deplore the attempts of the government to terrorize minorities (such as the Student Union) by publicizing their names, and hence inviting discrimination against...
...like an effort to bring a quick settlement to the strike. The President seems determined to us his newly won emergency powers of force to restore production. If so, he might better bring his influence to bear on N. A. A.'s prosperous owners to concede the seventy-five cent minimum wage asked by the Union than order his Army to squash the picket line. Such a move would be less liable to the cries of "Communism" which would arise on every hand than is the present proposal to charges of Fascism...
...margin requirement of $1,000 per unit (33,600 lb.) instead of $350, and an end to pure speculation, or 2) an OPACS-imposed price ceiling "considerably below the current price." Cowed, the brokers gulped assent to the margin boost. Next day pepper prices dropped a cent to less than 6½? a Ib.-the sharpest drop in the four-year history of the pepper market...
...unhappy situation of a reduced income had to be faced; no one has denied that. What was denied, first by the Teachers' Union, then by the Student Union, and finally by the Student Council, was that a flat ten per cent budget cut should be slammed down the throat of every Department in the University, with only the pious admonition to "injure educational standards as little as possible." According to the report, the tutorial system is being rapidly de-emphasied by the effects of the cut, and a Harvard education may become a watery sort of thing, at least...