Word: percents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major defect in the present method, by which the government maintains a minimum price by loans or purchases, is that consumers often suffer by high prices. The Brannan plan continues government loans and purchases for storable goods, about 25 percent of total farm output, but changes the price-setting formula. Producers are satisfied with this method and want it retained...
...effort to modernize the basis for minimum support prices, the Brannan plan includes a new and highly-complicated formula. The present support price is a flat 90 percent of parity, parity taken as the 1909-1914 period. A new plan, scheduled to go into effect in 1950, will allow prices to vary between 60 and 90 percent of parity. The Brannan plan, however, will base support prices for each year on the average of the ten previous years...
Both a faculty committee and a Student Council committee issued reports at the meeting on investigations of the College scholarship facilities that were begun early in the fall. Each report stressed that under no circumstances should the proportion of scholarship students in each class fall below 20 percent...
Inflation has made inadequate the $400,000 annual income which Harvard derives from its scholarship endowment, the largest in the world, Monro explained. The price of attending Harvard is now 50 percent over the pre-war cost and hence $600,000 is now needed to finance yearly scholarship grants...
...Ninety-five percent of 'em are very good dressers and exceptionally neat in appearance." This statement was made by one girl, and was ascribed to by the majority...