Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, the National Association of Home Builders and the National Home and Property Owners' Foundation may be shown to the home-hungry, inflation-ridden citizen after January 3. These and similar groups are pressing for at least a fifteen per cent rise in all rents. If the public remains as indifferent to their unpublicized machinations in Washington, complete decontrol in this field will...
...problems which the Constitutional Committee has been boggling on found the ballot-writers taking fairly definite sides. House representation won a decisive 85 per cent majority over the present Class system, and the completely elective ideal won a somewhat less decisive majority over any combination of appointive and elective systems. Again, with such evidence before them, it is difficult to see how the Committee can justify much extension of debate on these two issues...
...distributing points, the poll forms were completely gone before one o'clock. Of the 1800 polls printed and handed out, well over 1300 were turned back in, most of them completely filled out. Of those taking the trouble to complete the form, only slightly better than seven per cent conformed to the stereotype of Harvard indifference by professing to think that the method of selecting a Council made no difference at all. The response to the poll may indeed, have started to pull apart the timeworn thesis that the undergraduate is "a most indifferent...
According to the terms of the new contract, the dining hall workers are to receive the same take-home pay for five days' work as they have been previously receiving for six. This change will be translated for the temporary employees into a 12-cent rise in the minimum wage, from 53 to 65 cents per hour (plus meals...
Anticipating the pressure of a new Congress, President Truman has already removed price, wage, and salary controls except the ceilings on rent, rice, and sugar. And in one of the earliest moves of new GOP leaders, Representative Joe Martin has announced intentions to reduce income taxes by 20 per cent, and a consequent paring of appropriations for all government projects, including an Army and Navy engaged in vital Occupation duties. Further Republican proposals in this revival of the Crystal Palace era of laissez-faire include shelving of the minimum-wage bill and President Truman's measure to establish a Federal...