Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the English have an income tax of 42 per cent, Cline pointed out, they were complaining that the government should do more for preparation even if it meant a further increase in taxes. The English would not stop fighting even if they were bombed out of London...
...Gold Coasters opened the University's straw vote season yesterday with a trial poll, sponsored by the House Committee. Wendell Willkie, Republican nominee for President, finished first by the margin of 110 to 93, or 51.4 per cent to 43.4 per cent for Roosevelt. Norman thomas, Socialist candidate, received 3.75 per cent of the total vote with eight ballots, and Roger Babson and Charles A. Lindbergh both received votes. Over 80 per cent of the House participated in the poll...
...shiny new super-highway the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania paid not one cent. The Turnpike Commission, appointed by Democratic Governor George Earle, got $29,250,000 from PWA, and a $40,800,000 loan from RFC. Tough, driving, sixtyish Walter Adelbert Jones, commission chairman, set a construction deadline at July 1, 1940 (to get the PWA grant), sent "cats" and bulldozers racing over Appalachian slopes like Nazi tanks in the Ardennes, ordered concrete flushed over roadbeds that had been given scarcely the winter to settle. The road was completed in 21 months. There was no fanfare this week as the Pennsylvania...
...frivolous and enduring wife of it all is revealed a threat to Mary Boland's reign in this line. "Vinnie's" utter lack of practicality affords a refreshing contrast to father's hard-headedness. She explains to "Clare, dear" that Junior's new suit "won't cost a cent because I exchanged it for that china dog I charged at the store." "And," with an innocent little smile, "they can't charge you for the dog, because we don't have it." This irrefutably naive logic leaves father speechless and the audience howling...
Located at Gallatin Hall, the new Business School self-service restaurant was established this fall because of the popularity of the Chase Hall restaurant which was started along similar lines at the end of last winter. According to Assistant Dean Harris, more than 50 per cent of Business School students use the self-service restaurant...