Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mass resistance in Occupied China through substitution of subsistence for cash crops by the rural population has bitterly disappointed the Japanese military. In Free China, however, agriculture has prospered. Crop yields have increased 30 per cent, and cooperative societies have sprung up with 8,000,000 members. Villages that used to consider the semi-monthly slaughter of a pig an event now slaughter them daily...
Transportation in Free China is not a problem of lack of roads now, says Mr. Fong, but lack of equipment and gasoline. He cites cases, as in the Burma Road, where as high as 50 per cent of the trucks stood idle along the road because of lack of parts. Two out of three gallons of gasoline sent to Free China have been used up on the Burma Road...
Reason for this island prosperity is sugar, on which Cuba feasts in good times, fasts in bad. Before the war, Cuban sugar was selling for less than a cent a pound in the world market. Now the U.S. Government has contracted for almost the whole 1942 crop (which was harvested last winter) at 2.65? a lb. This is the highest price since 1926, and it gives Cuba a sugar income of more than $200,000,000 this year, almost two and a half times last year (see chart). Sugar accounts for 70 to 80% of Cuba's total national...
...October 17 the Alumni Bulletin announced that but 22 per cent of the undergraduates wanted war immediately, nearly half felt that the Neutrality Act should be repealed, and more than 50 per cent thought that they should not be drafted...
...quarter of a thousand Harvard men have not lived up to their promise. Failure in their pledges directly threatens the existence of one of the undergraduates' most potent powers for the good, Phillips Brooks House. The Student Council has collected some $8300 from 90 per cent of its debtors, a much better record that at this time last year, but that extra unpaid thousand determines whether students will continue to derive the benefits of their own organizations. Then, besides the urgency of the present problem, there is the usual number who contribute not a cent. This year, it amounts...