Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Candidates for the positions must be within 16 years, 6 months, and 25 years of age, and may apply for Deck or Engineer positions. The number of Engineer appointments will be approximately 50 per cent greater than the number of those accepted for Deck. The physical qualifications are identical for Deck and Engineer candidates and are based upon the requirements of the Navy Department for appointment as Midshipman in the U. S. Naval Reserve...
...Sixty-five per cent of the people of this country want to vote for me. I know because I asked them. . . . The other parties might as well give...
...will be a happy one; ya probe, ya investigate, even expose. As a newsman ya write almost anything. Vying with the Jester and Mickey Sullivan for local honors, your life will be one of night tramps through the byways of University life, distracted only by rivers of six per cent beer...
Over at beautiful Appleton Chapel, John made the vows without much ado. Best wishes to another wise member from all the outsiders. Mr. Werhave, however, reports that the room is about 200 per cent quieter since the event. Best man Jim Rafferty has the answer to that one. But we're wondering why seemingly wild and independent Company 4 leads in number of marriages. (We realize that at the rate things happen around here this may be contested tomorrow afternoon...
...cigar smokers last week got good news: OPA ordered manufacturers to start making "five-cent" cigars-something the consumer had not seen since last summer. There was the usual slight hitch: the 5? cigar will cost the smoker 7½?. But the 90% of U.S. cigar smokers who ordinarily smoke nickel cigars, have been paying from 10? to 25? for brands they never heard...