Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many quarters this news will come as an unpleasant and unexpected blow. Only a short time after the Saltonstall Committee was set up, in the Spring of 1947, a Student Council poll showed that 98.2 per cent of the College favored a utilitarian memorial, and that 50.4 per cent specifically wished for an activities center. Thirty-seven out of 43 undergraduate groups endorsed such a project. From that Spring forward, the Council and other College groups have pushed for a home for displaced College organizations...
...learned ornithologist, who paid more attention to pass defense then Jane Russell, would have consumed three dozen 50--cent cigars in doleful contemplation of the Crimson's haplessness against the Columbia aerial attack...
...Secretary of Agriculture, wrote a small book which quietly predicted that a Democratic victory in 1948 was not at all improbable. Its empirical conclusions do not deserve oblivion in the creseen do of excited oratory, for Louis Bean has not as yet been wrong by more than 1 per cent in 12 years of predicting elections...
...paying its first common dividend in ten years in the first quarter of the year, Armour decided not to pay a dividend this summer. Said Armour's Board Chairman George A. Eastwood: "Our earnings on meat last year were at the rate of about one-fifth of a cent a pound. Obviously a profit of one-fifth cent cannot be responsible for the increase which has taken place in meat prices since before the war." Nevertheless, the suit helped drive packing shares on the New York Stock Exchange to their year...
...used to go bust every year. Since FDIC started insuring, only 404 banks have been forced to close, and less than one-eighth of 1% of their deposits were lost. In the last five years not one FDIC-insured bank has closed, and not one depositor has lost a cent...