Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aerial Thumbs. Army peacetime flying had been a model of sanity and caution. In the decade ending last spring the accident rate had been steadily shaved, but it had been inching up ever since the training-expansion program began. Only a few of the accidents were fatal. Seventy per cent were minor, mostly on training fields-pilots and student pilots telescoped their landing gears in hard touchdowns or chewed up wingtips in groundloops...
...classroom, and with the Navy invading even the Littauer Center and the Music Building, that's not easy. Finally, the students have to be notified. All this is a good day's work, and involves expenses for printing, postage, and phone calls as well. Then, if only ten per cent of the people who signed up in the first place turn out, you have good reason to be annoyed...
...provoke serious thought on the part of Harvard students. The truth of the statements made are apparent. "They" did get us into it--and, for one "with troubles of my own," a quarter a week is a lot of money. Before plunging into decisions to sign a twenty-five cent a week pledge, students should reflect carefully. If their conclusions are that any money they lend the government will aid in prosecuting the war, that Roosevelt should shoulder all the burden, and that their own troubles come first--then let them think carefully before giving monetary aid to their country...
Several months ago, farm prices were fixed at 110 per cent of parity, but the government planned to keep them below that level by selling at sub-parity prices important crops held as collateral for loans. Some such strategy was necessary, for rising farm prices mean an enormous inflationary spiral. Not only food prices would rise, but, since half of our farm produce goes into industrial raw materials, all other prices would go up too. The House Committee has refused to pass a Senate rider to the current appropriation permitting the Administration to sell 125,000,000 bushels of wheat...
...mile, 100,000-volt high-tension line. Meanwhile its engineers lived like explorers in tents and ghost-city shanties. Now the huge crushing plant, wet mill and dry mill are almost complete; operations will be full-scale by mid-July. Total cost: $9,000,000-every cent from National Lead's own till...