Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farm machinery needs take on added importance in the face of a labor scarcity. The current curtailment to twenty per cent of the 1940 allotment has been recognized as a mistake by the WPB, and it is known, that the figure has been upped in practice to sixty per cent. Yet when all agricultural equipment amounts to only one-fiftieth of the nation's metal consumption surely Davis deserves more than an advisory voice in falling his needs...
Students have formed their own undergraduate faculty, inviting high school students to come to their rooms for free instruction in elementary subjects and 12 per cent of the tutees end up in college. A Speakers Committee attempts to fill requests for experts on everything from China to checkers, and in addition can provide magicians and musicians at will...
Roland A. Young '38, instructor of Government, upholding the Democrats, gave Roosevelt a 75 per cent chance of running for a fourth term and based his arguments for the party's re-election on the past record of the President and his administration...
When the United States Employment Service inquired, some time ago, of selected war industries how many jobs would be opened to qualified Negroes, answers showed that 51 per cent were absolutely closed to colored workers in both northern and southern states, for unskilled as well as skilled workers. Although the government has urged and even demanded that industry hire Negroes, management officials have been slow to respond. Standard Steel of Kansas City, Missouri, declared: "We have never had a Negro worker in twenty-five years and don't intend to start...
Reviewing admission figures, Gummerece stated that 788 schools, an increase of 298 over the year before, were represented, and that there had been an increase over the year before, were represented, and that there had been an increase of over 60 per cent in the Massachusetts admission. There was an increase in all sections grouped by states, especially in the New England area, and the only decrease took place among students from foreign countries...