Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stanley Salmen, secretary of the Bureau of Supervisors, reported that of 405 enrolled last year, 63 per cent had improved their grades, 24 per cent remained at the same scholastic level when they were falling behind, while only 13 per cent showed no progress...
Fred Lane of the American: "Harvard of course, 21 to 7. Look at the Crimson showing since the first of November. While the backfield is a toss-up, the Crimson line is sixty per cent better. The whole team is stronger and smarter...
...ideological arguments for intervention? Stripped to their bare essentials, they constitute straight imperialism, a twentieth century version of Manifest Destiny. The argument runs like this: If Germany wins, she will dominate huge areas of the world's best markets. Our foreign trade may make up only seven per cent of our national income, but it is a vital seven per cent. With our major customers forced to deal with Germany, we will have a catastrophic economic collapse, and in the ensuing dislocation and poverty, native fascism, encouraged by Hitler's success, will rise in our midst...
Voice: "Ninety per cent of our business is done on the phone with people I have never seen, unless they take a trip through Canada...
Earnings of those who received jobs from the office amounted to $260,396 an increase of two per cent, and 517 more positions were found for applicants last year than during the previous year...