Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tomfoolery, parades, fanfare, gags, spectacles, fol de rol-and everywhere. Breathed no man alive in the 48 States, excepting only (possibly) hermits, night watchmen and astronomers, who was not exposed almost daily to lures, enchantments, traps, and high-pressure selling designed to milk his pocketbook of every possible cent for the war effort. Men might groan and women resist, but on the street, in railroad stations, in shops and stores and factories and offices, in restaurants, cafes and lunch-wagons, in movies, theaters and stadiums, over the radio all day and all night, they were exhorted, begged and bewitched into...
...Every cent of premium money has been paid to microscopic concerns, while the important producers have been expected to take an actual loss on as much as 30% of their production, on the theory that they could make up this loss out of profit on their low-cost mines...
...official pledge drive entered its last 24 hours, Lowell was leading all the Houses in the amount pledged for War Bonds and Stamps. Lowell's best, however, indicated only 60 per cent participation of its members, and figures for the College as a whole revealed that only about 30 per cent of the student body have signed pledges, amounting to a total...
Simultaneously with the announcement of these figures by the War Service Committee, reports from Yale revealed that during the last week sales have netted a total of $999.35 from the student body. Previously Yale had announced that 98 per cent of the students had signed...
...door to door canvass which is aimed at the students who did not sign pledges in the dining halls on Monday, began last night and will continue until Thursday night when, it is hoped, close to 100 per cent cooperation will have been obtained from the student body...