Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rating in Britain last week was 78%, a drop of eight points from just before Tobruk, now precisely the same as President Roosevelt's in the U.S. Only 41% of Britain's polled subjects approve the Government's conduct of the war, 42% disapprove. Sixty per cent want a second front in 1942; 12% think it should not be tried...
...must come to Summer School, while Navy Sci men can spend their time trout fishing. Yale Navy Sci men are obliged to accelerate, while Princetonians have their choice. The entire structure of the college officer procurement system is confused and inefficient. It is no wonder that only twenty per cent of the V-1 and Enlisted Reserve Corps quotas have been filled...
Meanwhile from the fields and factories comes grumbling. With 80 per cent of its officer material drawn from the ranks of the college trained, the Army is developing a class structure in which only the well-to-do can lead, and a mass of potential manpower, 84 per cent of selected, are being assigned to the ranks for lack of an education they cannot afford. Congress' five million dollar appropriation is only a token of the all-preserving federal subsidy needed for victory...
...produced 20 per cent more per capita than in the 1920's, a feat which, according to Hansen, has given us a new idea of our production capabilities. At the present time our supply of civilian durable goods on hand is sufficiently great, he said, that even if we should cease their manufacture and apply our energies entirely to industrial production, we could live almost as well...
...itself in a vain effort to please everyone. And the resulting advancement of sectional and group interests has made coherent planning impossible. With its treasury tax bill reduced by almost two billions, the $25,000 limit on personal income discarded, and effective price ceiling hamstrung by a fifty per cent cut in OPA funds, the administration anti-inflation program forms a striking case in point. The continued refusal of Congress to grant Leon Henderson necessary powers and appropriations in the struggle against inflation, and its insistence on farm price parity still threatens the price structure of the nation...