Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probably the most spectacular results obtained by the study counsel bureau occur in its reading classes. Last term they included more than 200 men, most of whom achieved a 70 per cent increase in speed. Before the class began students read an average of 250 words per minute and were able to answer correctly 6 1-2 out of 10 comprehension questions. At the conclusion of the 18 hour course they averaged 400 to 450 words per minute with a comprehension score of 7 1-2 to 8 questions...
Still the only University literary publication until the Advocate make its appearance March 24, Radditudes will hit the newsstands of the House dining halls with its March issue tonight, complete with a new staff of editors, a new colored cover, new feature materials, and a 20 cent price reduction...
...were sold. It was not for lack of bidders. As auctioneers went through their babble ("Haddock on the Maine . . . I'm offered seven . . . seventy-five . . . seven-eighty . . .all done? . . . all done"), haddock finally reached a top bid of 8½?. But it was still half a cent below the minimum price unofficially set by the A.F.L. Atlantic Fishermen's Union, whose men man the boats. And until the price for haddock and other fish was met, the unionized "lumpers" who unload the boats would not work...
That if it cost one cent per thousand miles, you could go around the world for a quarter...
...more (from 32.86? a pound to 31.45?). Amid the growing abundance of dairy products, wholesale butter fell as much as 7 ½? a pound in one day. In the New York area, the price of milk was reduced 44? a hundredweight by the Department of Agriculture, about a cent a quart, and pegged there to keep it from going lower...