Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact is that some Merchant Seamen at the very beginning of the war were granted bonuses far out of line with the wage scales of the armed forces. These bonuses covered the trip to Murmansk, a brutal voyage, but a voyage that involved less than 10 per cent of the two hundred thousand men who were active wartime seamen. When losses on the North Atlantic dropped off, bonuses were cut, and the wage scale of the Merchant Marine, figured on an annual basis, was aligned with that of the Army and Navy so that no great difference existed...
These officers and men of the Merchant Marine are exposed to the longest looks and widest public freeze when the subject of recruitment is aired. Just where were the draft-dodgers? Some 25 per cent of the men were 4-F, or over or under service ago. Another 30 per cent were old time mariners who were merely working at their business--which suddenly became a good deal more precarious and, to the nation, essential. The rest were able-bodied men of draft age who went to sea instead of to the armed forces, and who, every last...
France. Nevertheless, the girls did well. Only two per cent of our letters came back marked Retour a Venvoyeur...
...news, and as a contest in which it is not easy to get a perfect score. Once, the warden of Clinton Prison, Dannemora, N.Y., gave the test to 200 of his brightest inmates under the most durable of honor systems. They averaged, according to the warden, 86 per cent. That's not bad, as the millions of TIME readers, students, and others who have taken the tests, can testify...
...should b e aware of the fact that 71 per cent of the members of the Student Council in the past ten years have been Club men, while during those years only 22 per cent of an average class belonged to a Club. He should realize that cliques of men from the various athletic squads and other single groups have managed to form a near-majority in many of the Councils (in '42, 7 of the 14 members were taken from the football, baseball and basketball squads, while in '43 the ratio was 6 out of 13). He should learn...