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Word: per (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next week it will be the big companies' turn to watch the gasaterias squirm. Under a new California law, the self-service stations may no longer advertise their "5? a gallon discount" unless their huge signs include, "in letters of equal size," the total price per gallon and brand name' of their gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Out of Gas? | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...different kinds of Bibles plus multidenominational religious supplies ranging from Sunday-school buttons to Torahs for synagogues. But this is a sideline to a fervently commercial trade that sells 70,000 secular titles to some of the country's most avid book buyers. Dallas spends about $6 per capita on books annually (the U.S. average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Corn Salesman | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

More than 4000 16-digit numbers, plus 4000 "commands" for carrying out the various operations of the machine, can be put on these nine drums. The drums revolve at speeds up to 120 revolutions per second and the magnetic spots move by the recording and play-back heads at speeds greater than 150 miles par hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Unveils Mark III Calculator; Machine, New, Faster, Goes to Navy | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...defined academic freedom as the right of a scholar to seek the truth, discuss his subject, and offer conclusions through publication and classroom instruction. It also asserted that membership per so in any, political or religious group or adherence to any philosophical, political, or religious belief does not necessarily constitute grounds for dismissal or failure to rehire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA Convenes, 1000 Strong | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

This year, Harvard's NSA chapter will emphasize projects benefiting a large per cent of the student body, in line with a national policy adopted at the convention. Regional projects will include the continuance and expansion of the purchase card plan-of the ten local merchants contacted, nine were highly satisfied with last year's results and intend to renew their affiliations; a national travel tour program similar to the international trips already sponsored; and reduced train and plane fares for students vacationing during the school year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA Convenes, 1000 Strong | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

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