Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thrifty characters of the first platoon who subscribed 100 per cent to War Bond allotments look down on their wastrel classmates...
Recently the Army released a short showing Clark Gable, with his ears and wings, and the Air Forces O.C.S. down at Miami. Captain Gable gave a long spiel about the toughness of the course, stating that the bottom ten per cent fail, so the Air Forces officer has to be good. What he forgot to add was that the top ten come to Harvard to the A.A.E. Stat School...
...draft, pared down to 350. Every rehearsal was "like an invasion"-350 performers, 70 stagehands, five revolving stages, 17 scenes. Haggard and jittery, Hart managed "to stay calm till I got to my bedroom at night, when I went crazy." Though he had waived every cent of royalties (in various forms Winged Victory may gross $10,000,000 for Army Emergency Relief) the show, for him, was the most important thing he had ever done...
...treaties made by the president, Burton declared dangerous. Where one-third plus one of the Senators thus control foreign policy, he said, the policy of the minority may be sustained, and a premium is placed upon inactivity. Under the two-thirds rule, 33 senators, possibly representing only eight per cent of the population, may decide issued involving the entire country...
Sued for Divorce. Richard Wesley Woolworth, 45, wealthy, sports-loving nephew of 5-&-10-cent-store founder Frank Winfield Woolworth, son of onetime board chairman Charles Sumner Woolworth; by Margaret Brady Woolworth, mother of his three children, 17, 15 and 8; in Tampa...