Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent Gallup poll shows that American public opinion now recognizes that the dangers which are involved in convoying are less than the danger which our country and our institutions would be in if Britain should be conquered. Seventy-one per cent of the voters favored convoying "if it appears certain that Britain will be defeated unless we use part of our Navy to protect ships going to Britain." I am reluctant to believe that the majority of Harvard undergraduates take a less realistic view of the situation. Professor E. Merrick Dodd...
...leaving a disastrous gap in the revenue. Finally in 1939 finances demanded a complete revision of format and policy. The Transcript under new management blossomed forth with the "Newscope," front page pictures, headlines and unfamiliar makeups, without the usual Jay ad in the left-hand corner. But the five cent tariff and fatter editions failed to offset the continued small circulation...
Klaw claimed that at most only 10 per cent of the United States trade is with foreign nations. Interventionists have to find catch slogans, Klaw said, because they can not ask people to "get out and fight for that 10 per cent...
...stubby Italian scholar is of the definite opinion that almost 100 per cent of American big business is in sympathy with the philosophy of government behind Hitler and Mussolini totalitarianism...
...Roosevelt has admitted, convoys mean shooting and shooting means war. In a democratic country the will of a majority of the people to fight is necessary before war can be declared, and only 17 per cent (yesterday's Gallup figures again) are in favor of entering an armed conflict. Once a war has been declared a totalitarian form of government is necessary in any country, but the United States is still at peace and four out of five Americans are in favor of staying there...