Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Requiring the student to answer yes or no, the poll asked (1) are you willing to use no meat on Tuesdays; (2) no eggs on Thursdays; (3) is the student willing to forego bread, toast, or rolls one meal per day; (4) eat pie one fewer day each week; (5) give up wheat cereals one day in seven; and (6) take only what he will eat. The final question asks students whether they approve dining halls serving "food of the week," the victuals most plentiful at a certain time...
...standard rate for maids is 65 cents per hour. All maids in dormitories and houses work four hours a day for six days a week. Others who perform their duties in "educational buildings" work for varying amounts of time, but never more than eight hours...
...social welfare, not private pleasure, and should therefore be large-scale and easy to understand. The three men formed the nucleus of a union-the Syndicate of Technical Workers, Painters and Sculptors-and negotiated contracts with an extraordinarily sympathetic and discerning government to paint murals at so much per square meter...
...many a housewife to hoarding against a possible price jump. But the first day of free trading passed without an increase, although the week before some New York grocers had to ration their more apprehensive customers. The Department of Agriculture said there was enough sugar in sight for a per capita consumption of 95 lbs. this year, 21 lbs. more than last year...
Broker's Tip. New York Stock Exchange members decided that commissions on stock transactions will henceforth be charged on money volume rather than on a per share basis. Estimated increase in commissions: 20%. Brokers have been doing none too well this year while the market has drifted in the doldrums. But in October it picked up to 28,634,629 shares, the year's best...