Word: percents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shek's military depots. From May to October, Chinese procurement agents trotted fruitlessly around Washington. There was haggling over prices. Chiang Kai-shek sent a personal appeal to President Truman to hurry things up. But not until last week did the Chinese finally get some definite answers. Forty percent of the top priority items on their shopping lists, they were told, would be shipped from West Coast ports in early December; 60% would be ready to ship in January...
...That 95% of U.S. citizens believe in God, with 76% describing themselves as church members. Ninety percent stated that they pray-and 56% said that they pray "frequently...
...That 71% think of God as their judge, meting out rewards or punishments for their actions. Seventy-three percent professed belief in some kind of after life ("I believe the spirit goes to heaven and will see members of his family later"; "I suppose there is something-won't be gold streets, though"). Of those who said that they believe in heaven, more than three-fifths coolly admitted that they expect to go there...
...hiding a $9,000,000 deficit and of jacking up fares. Dever says the Republicans have failed to supply the Commonwealth with cheap water power. Referenda 5, 6, and 7, the labor bills, are pet peeves of Dever, and he has criticized the Governor's support of a 2 percent sales...
...political bright fortune to be a self-made man who worked his way through school to become state Attorney General in 1935. In this post he busted trusts, pulled down $8,000,000 for the Commonwealth on the Brink case alone, and piled up a record that was 95 percent victorious. In 1940 Dev-came within 5,588 votes of the Governorship and lost as lieutenant governor by only 6,787 six years later...