Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only one restaurant has gone over to the chicory coffee combination. Hayes-Bicford's has swung to an 80 per cent coffee, 20 per cent chicory blend in an effort to supply the huge consumer demands...
Right now the four restaurants are barely scraping along on what they are able to beg, borrow, or steal. Only getting 50 or 60 per cent of what they were using, these places have tried to restrict the sale of coffee in various ways, including stopping sale of "coffee to go" and limiting people to one cup of coffee per meal. Hazen's, formerly using 100 pounds a week, now only gets 40-odd. The late-at-night business had been hit especially hard by this shortage, the manager said...
...administration has been an excellent one. In spite of increased war expenses, (the legislature appropriated an extra $7,000,000), there were no new tax burdens, a 75 per cent reduction in four years, sizable drops in local rates, and an increase in reimbursements to cities and towns. A policy of judicious economy and use of surplus cash has brought about this miracle, and created a $4,500,000 backlog against revenue decreases besides. He has fulfilled his 1938 pledge of "Opportunity for the Young, Security for the Aged." $60,000,000 more than in the previous four years have...
...addition the Student Council has to pay for its telephone, stationery, and postal supplies. Roughly about five per cent of the money collected from the undergraduates is used for the running expenses of the Council and its committee...
...method; and to explain how this works, dignitaries of the Church have written, or put their imprimatur upon pamphlets and books that are freely distributed through the mails to millions of people." Despite Catholic opposition to medical contraception, a public opinion survey made in 1940 indicated that 72 per cent of the Catholics in Massachusetts favored medical freedom in birth control. In an extensive survey made by Dr. Pearl of Johns Hopkins it was found that two-thirds as many Catholic as Protestant mothers in relation to total population, admitted the practice artificial contraception. Perhaps this will...