Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less than ten employes and an idea that the public would buy hickory-cured ham - his only product at the start. Be fore he eased off he had pushed Beech-Nut to No. 3 place in the U.S. confectionery industry, built its assets to $22,800,000 without a cent of debt...
Fifteen per cent said they felt no emotion and were bored by the picture, believing that the Germans were not as bad as often portrayed. They were chiefly fearful of our entry into the war, but even these were willing to resist the Nazis. Another 5% said resistance was futile although the picture affected their emotions relatively little, a small number were definitely pro-Nazi in their reactions, and the remainder are unclassified...
...your editorial "Two Thirds of a Nation" which you printed last week, you showed that 67 per cent of the people in the United States, by Gallup's figures, were opposed to the use of convoys. I believe that this week's Gallup poll is even more interesting and relevant. It is more important to know the comparative value which is attached in the people's minds to the alternatives we have, than their opinion of what is strategically necessary to carry that out at any one moment. Sixty-eight per cent would favor the United States' going into...
...only is the vast majority shown which favors our entrance if necessary to defeat the Axis, but there has been a large shift on the convoy question. From the Crimson's figure of 27 per cent quoted last Monday, it had changed by the middle of the week poll until "41 per cent said they now favored the use of United States naval convoys." (Times). Over a 50 per cent increase in so short a time is highly indicative that the United States is rapidly coming to believe that the time when it must enter the war to make sure...
...Means Committee chief. Mr. Doughton, hoary expert at turnip-bleeding, said curtly that he thought the turnips could take it. To Mr. Doughton this week, from Henry Morgenthau, came the Treasury's recommendations. They included a hike in the basic income-tax rate of 2.2 to 6.6 per cent, lower exemptions, surtaxes on all incomes over...