Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pledge cards, with which students may allocate percentages of their donations to seven specific charities, will be used again this year. Although national organizations are not stressed, the donor may write in any charity of his own choosing. While the Student Council is supposed to receive 20 per cent of all allocated money for its own use, the student is allowed to request that none of his donation go to the Council...
...Bevin and Acheson of bullying France into accepting a new dominant Germany. They recall Schuman's telling a press conference, for instance, that, though there would be a slow-down in dismantling German industry, such plants as the huge Thyssen Steel Works in the Ruhr, which made ten per cent of the Reich's war output, would definitely not be removed from proscription. On Thanksgiving day, when the protocol was announced, however, dismantling of Thyssen came to a half...
Dealers generally get their books at 40 per cent below list price, though specialized text books carry only a 25 per cent discount...
...turkeys will not be called on to handle the task alone; 2600 pounds of squash, 135 boxes of celery, and 13,724 apples and oranges will go into a dinner which only 25 per cent of the University residents are expected to enjoy...
...cent increase in commutation fares was sought today by three major eastern railroads. The move was made less than a week after the Interstate Commerce Commission granted eastern roads authority to boost passenger fares 12 1-2 per cent...