Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company would cut the payrate per piece. Thus, to make certain they do not work harder for less money, workers in many departments set their own quotas. This has been brought to such scientific control that many pieceworkers collect the same amount in their paychecks-down to the last cent. For long, companies approved the quota-it kept skilled employes from burning themselves out in overwork. Publicly union bigwigs deplore the quota; privately, workers rigidly enforce it. Two months ago, eight rubber workers began serving jail sentences in Akron for beating a fellow unionist who had exceeded his quota...
...sinecure; 55-year-old Fred Gurley will earn every cent of his $60,000-a-year salary. The Santa Fe has a tough year ahead. Its Western divisions are snowed under by a record wheat crop...
Then began a lengthy arguments about the traffic to be paid on the bells. The customs men classified them as lump metal, on which there was a 45 per cent of value tax. Harvard claimed they were carillons, but, since they didn't come up to the U.S.carillon minimum of 23 bells, the tariff officials wouldn't admit it until shown the blueprints, which had empty spaces left for other bells...
Adolph W. Samborski, Assistant Director of Intramural Athletics, has announced that the passing grade of the step test has been lowered from 75 to 65 per cent. Samborski added that this change in the passing mark would affect about 170 men whose grades were between these two figures. Those men will be notified of their present standing by mall...
...chance meeting in 1939 in Evanston, Ill., met people who had known Anna. Anna and the King of Siam consists of 391 pages (with neat line drawings by Margaret Ayer) condensed from Anna's own discursive, old-fashioned writing. It is "75 percent fact, and 25 per cent fiction based on fact." Gilbert & Sullivan King. The King of Siam was a character out of Gilbert & Sullivan - except that when he tortured people, they died. When Anna arrived at Bangkok she met the full force of cold, Oriental impoliteness. She was insulted, neglected, frightened, sneered at, as soon...