Word: percents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Five Percent? There were signs last week that Britain's Labor leaders were shedding their no longer very rosy illusions. With a general election ahead, it would not be easy for Prime Minister Clement Attlee to call for a temporary retreat in the drive to establish the welfare state. But such a retreat was plainly under...
...Forty Percent? The big guns of the T.U.C., led by burly Chairman Sir William Lawther, wheeled up to support retrenchment. Trade union leaders prepared a report and a resolution which served up some bitter medicine for the rank & file (8,000,000 strong), who have been pressing for higher pay and other benefits. Salient points...
...accepted without a fight. The restive T.U.C. membership would argue long and harshly over their leaders' counsel. To a Washington estimate that the new economic policy would depress the British standard of living by 4%, a harassed Labor policymaker last week made a grim and exaggerated rejoinder: "Four percent! If only it were 4%-it would be paradise. The ghastly truth is that Washington would be nearer the mark if it said...
...Marcos wasn't much of a capital city, and the country itself was immemorially backward, wretchedly poor. Two percent of its people owned 80% of the land; tenant farmers got 2? a day, skilled workers 7? an hour. On the highlands, hungry Indians scratched the barren slopes for corn, still trying to live by what they remembered of the dignified old tribal customs. And ruling the country was Dictator Ronca, a strutting, streamlined Latin American demagogue who had won the peasants' support by promising them land, only to suppress them as soon as he got to power...
...There were several reasons. For one, his name had been found in the records of James V. Hunt, prime subject (TIME, July 25) of the Senate's five-percent investigation. For another, according to the New York Herald Tribune, he had once tried to smuggle a bottle of precious perfume oils into the country from Europe by saying it was only champagne he was taking to Mrs. Truman...