Word: percent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cleveland's Warner & Swasey Co. recently polled 251 corporate users of machine tools to see what percent of tools on hand were obsolete. Findings: of 120,864 machine tools in place, only 9.6% were bought between 1936-38, the years of most revolutionary machine tool engineering advance; 67.3% were bought before 1928, are covered with technological cobwebs. Although machine tools make mass production possible, machine tool building is itself a long-drawn-out, artisan-like process, taking up to two years in specialized cases. To make this bottleneck worse, machine-tool builders are mostly small family concerns, with their...
...Senator Pittman's "Cash and Carry" plan; or (c) repeal it without making any further legislation. If the existing statue is retained, all shipments of arms, ammunition, and implements of war will be barred. It says nothing of the raw materials and semi-finished products which made up 85 percent of U. S. shipments to the Allies during World War I. Although the "Cash and Carry" proposal prevents American ships from carrying cargo to belligerents, the present law makes no such stipulation. In financial matters both acts are almost equally stringent save that the new bill will require title...
...experiment, a group of sixteen Freshmen showed marked improvement in reading skill and some advance in scholastic standing, after eight weeks of special training last fall. They increased their reading speed by 50 percent, gained in reading accuracy, and altered for the better their habits of eye movement...
...such insurance is being written, what is the rate percent...
...year ! " Then he pointed with pride and sympathy at 30,000,000 U. S. families whose average income is $1,500. "I am convinced," he cried, "that it is the average families, in the main, who foot the bill for this enormous pay roll. . . . Thirteen percent of a family's annual income for the public pay roll alone is too much...