Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...estimated that 20 per cent of the new Freshmen are under 17 years old, and that less than 15 per cent are over 18. In peacetime the average entering age was 18 years and two months, but the war has driven the median down to a point slightly below 17 years, five months. Between two and three per cent of today's registrants will probably be 15 year olds...
...cases where shock is very great, the injection of blood plasma alone is insufficient, since patients who have suffered severe injuries need 50 per cent plasma and 50 per cent whole blood. Until now, the lack of suitable equipment has made this practically impossible...
Down payments on the purchase of a farm, home, or business will be loaned by the government, or can be obtained from private agencies. The government will guarantee 50 per cent on loans up to $4000 and up to $2000 on all loans over...
Volunteers working under the Red Cross, have made 90 per cent of all dressings used by the armed forces. Commercial plants, overburdened by war work, cannot begin to do this job. Instead of being considered a leisure time activity, making dressings is now an urgent necessity...
When the egg buyer drives in the yard and says "Eggs are down a cent today," do I rare back and say, "Oh, no, they're not, we're charging two cents more today." He drives off in a huff and I sit down on my case of eggs and charge and charge and charge, but nothing happens. The same system applies to livestock. We truck it to the city and are informed that the "market" is so much today. We can charge all we like but we get paid whatever the market happens to be. Charge...