Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...material, plus twenty-five percent overhead. Opening a fire door or breaking a window comes under official censure and entails a fine as well ad replacement. The skeptic who views twenty-five percent overhead with wincing eye might be reminded that no professional contractor operates even near this margin nor has he any urge...
...Farmers. Grain speculation, as Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson observed only a few hours after the President's fluff, had already fallen off; trading had fallen 53% since the one-third cash margin rule was put into effect two weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 13). But the price of grain went right on rising. Next day, when rumors spread that CCC was about to step out of the market, the price of wheat fell off a bit, but continued its climb when the rumor proved false. So long as the Government bought, there was no reason for grain prices...
Outplayed in the first half, the Mastodons turned the tide completely in the third and fourth quarters, using their tremendous reserve strength to defeat the fast-tiring Bunnies. Two large penalties, a screen pass, and an end sweep by antelope-legs Tener Eckleberry provided the margin of victory, with John Quisenberry coming on to boot the conversion...
...Williamson System of rating gives Dartmouth a .7 point edge, thus standing as just about the only expert voice to predict a win for the Green. The Globe's Hal Knees reasserted the 6.5 margin and seems inclined to string along with the local lads as does ex-tackle Vern Miller '42, who claims that "in the sea of new faces that dot the grid landscape is Cambridge lies the secret of Harvard's characterization as a November team...
...comparative records the game should end in a tie, for both the Crimson and the Indians are undefeated in three games this season and both have beaten Army by a one goal margin. Injuries and absences could decide...