Word: percents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...achieve moderately good marks through huge outlays of study time. Such stumblers in the dark, as well as grade-hawks, may find it interesting that the marks of 8 out of 10 men rise after their exposure to Bureau methods, and that reading speeds are accelerated by 70 percent...
...proposed student activities center garnered 53 percent of the nearly 2500 ballots cast, while a hockey rink and a scholarship fund received 18 and 16 percent respectively...
Although it has done some positive good, the so-called Newburyport Plan (popular misconceptions to the side) has not brought about general price reductions. Nor was it intended to. Essentially, the ten percent retail price reduction movement is a somber, out of season, post-Christmas clearing sale. Many merchants, rightfully fearful that shoddy, overpriced good would rot on shelves, to be written off as complete losses, saw the light and began selling at wholesale cost. The resultant waves of buying have emptied shelves at no net loss. While a plasma infusion to the store-keeper, this phenomenon has no effect...
During the forecasted period of prosperity, Slichter warned that the United States can expect an annual price rise of 20 to 80 percent. Technological advances will be unable to keep pace with demands for wage boosts, and industry will maintain its profit margin by smelling prices...
...organized labor force of 14,000,000 workers is capable of maintaining a steady wage increase of about three percent a year, he said...