Word: percents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cross and the Community Fund, each recipient of 40 percent of the charity donations arbitrarily made by the Council last year, were cut 50 percent, with the Red Cross obviously suffering from veteran adversity. Some penned-in comments said that the Red Cross should get "less than nothing...
According to the incomplete returns, local charities should receive 25 percent of the allocated $17,000; national, 37.25 percent, and foreign, the highest at 37.75 percent...
...first step in any conservation plan should be a return to 85 percent milling of wheat flour," the professor said. Only about 70 percent of the food value of the grain is currently earmarked for human consumption, the remainder going to live-stock feed production...
During the war, flour milling reached 85 percent. "If we have a dry year in 1948, the situation will be very bad," the sociologist predicted...
...anticipated demand for February will greatly exceed the supply of rooms available. Although 460 men will graduate or otherwise leave at midyear this will spell only 275-odd housing openings because of the decision of the House Masters to drop back as soon as possible to the "fifty percent above normal" quotas of last Spring. This ruling means that the absorption of the sixteen or twenty men now added to the House rosters will not be considered to provide "vacancies...