Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than half of the 48 students enrolled, the largest number in the ten-year history of the program, are veterans studying under the GI Bill of Rights. Whitehead notes that whereas ordinary classes of past years were evenly divided between college students and working girls, eighty per cent of the present group "have had a wide view of life...
...assemble at noon behind the Widener Library for the march, were distributed at heavy-traffic areas in the Yard yesterday and at dinner last night. No one would hazard an estimate of how many University men, other than AVC and HLU members, who are supporting the campaign "100 per cent," will participate...
...Your dollar buys just 75 per cent as much as it did 22 days ago under OPA," the mimeographed sheets pointed out. Addressing veterans attending the University, it posed two questions: "What will $65 be worth if your board bill jumps this Fall?" and "How can you support a family on $90 a month when meat costs $1.00 a pound already...
TRANSLATING LOCAL RISES TO THE NATIONAL SCENE, the Department of Labor's Bureau of Statistics has figured that prices of 28 basic commodities have ascended by 33 per cent since V-J Day, of which rise 23 per cent has occurred since the beginning of this month...
...July 12, present price levels lack only 10 per cent of equalling the January 1920 peak, according to the Department of Labor. Up until the June 30 suspension of OPA, the seven-year price rise of this war equalled that of a four-and-a-half year period in the last. Samples of the latest market increases, from another source, show hides up 74 per cent since June 29; shellac up 80 per cent; cocoa beans up 65 per cent; and foodstuffs up 30 per cent...