Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union (A.F.L.) had struck for higher wages and a 60% share of the sale of the catch. The companies, disgusted with 58 strikes and work stoppages in four and a half years, stubbornly shook their heads, talked of selling their boats to foreign nations, buying the catch at one cent a pound below Boston prices. But at week's end, best bet was that labor and management would get together in an armed truce to take up the defense against the foreign invasion. To Boston fishermen, even crow makes better eating than foreign...
...room space for student veterans was undertaken in anticipation of increasing pressure on existing facilities in the Summer and Fall terms, and as a result of a housing survey made recently by the Straus Hall office. This survey indicated that of the couples who had no children, 58 per cent were willing to pay from $50 to $75 per month for rooms, while of those couples who had two children, 23 per cent would be able to afford over $100 a month for living quarters...
...Most of the paper for the Chinese banknote issue (estimated at a thousand * $10 Chinese is about 1/20th of a cent U.S. billion dollars) was ordered through his firm...
...proposed that U.S. cotton exchanges boost margins on cotton futures $10 a bale for every cent a pound rise above 25?. (At the present price of 26? a pound, on the New York Exchange, this would increase margins 1½times.) Few knew whether this would hold down prices. But it raised the tempers of cotton patriots so high that they loudly threatened to liquidate OPA if it continued to tamper with the sacred right of cotton to rise as high as it pleased. Nevertheless, Stabilizer Bowles was stubbornly determined to check cotton prices. If increased margins did not work...
Fine Arts--up to limit of Faculty vote, thus including 40 per cent of concentrators...