Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...volume of business coming before the Bureau increased by 30 per cent during the past year, Mr. Wyman said. The largest numbers of cases involved problems of landlord and tenant, money claims, family difficulties, estates, injuries, and the drafting of legal documents...
Approximately 70 per cent of the Bureau's clients were gainfully employed in the past year, about the same as the year before. In 1937-38, only 55 per cent were gainfully employed...
Ninety-five per cent of the newspapers commenting editorially on That Man's reelection said that regardless of race, creed, or how much dough we lost on the election, Americans must "close ranks," as they boldly phrased it. This is no time they said, for squabbling. Republicans and Democrats alike, we must bury the hatchet--preferably not in each others' necks...
...London's advice, and had tried to fit herself into Britain's war economy. But when Germany started to move, Canada made a quick right-face to the south. Since then, Canadian orders in the U. S. have tripled, while her orders in Britain have increased only 50 per cent. Her reception by the U. S. was far from chilly, and led to the formation of a joint defense board. This board has alarmed many Americans, because it appears to ally us with a warring country. But our nine billions for defense, our super-navy now in process of building...
Ninety-eight per cent of the new rubber the U. S. uses (grand total: 600,000 long tons in 1939) now comes from Malaya, Cochin China, the Dutch and British East Indies, other Far Eastern plantation areas...