Word: percents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engineering firm of John A. Patton Inc. released a survey of 4,000 wives of the nation's top executives-the women who are supposed to set the pattern. The results offer some hard facts to challenge the proposition that executive wives must also marry the corporation. Sixty percent of the wives polled advised the young executive wife to remain aloof from corporate contacts, attend only necessary social functions, such as conventions; even the 40% who disagreed recommended only "a middle ground" of sociability. Said Mrs. Margaret Barry, wife of a vice president of the Michigan Bell Telephone...
Selove also stated that there was a tremendous variation in the amount of strontium 90 found in the soil. He said that the concentration depended on the amount of calcium in a certain area--there have been variations from the mean of as much as 5000 percent because of calcium concentration--and also that the amount of strontium taken into an individual's body depends on the form in which it is ingested...
...heered right," said Peter. "We got fo'tynine percent mo' spirits as we got room fo'. People ain't so develish as dey used to be, an mo' of dem wants to get into Heaven. We's either gwine haf to lease eternity rights from de devil fo' mo' livin' space or else crack down on de applicants...
Free throw accuracy played a decisive role in the game tonight. Although the team has averaged only 66.6 percent on free throw attempts this season, tonight, when they counted, the team sank a phenomenal 21 for 23. Williams hit 18 for 26, a respectable showing and since each team had the same number of field goals, the Crimson's foul line effectiveness was the difference...
...scandal during the Korean War." At the beginning of the conflict, both Air and Army National Guard leaders urged "immediate mobilization." They were told that the war was only a "police action" and it could be handled by the regular services. As it was, though, eighty-four percent of the Air Guard and thirtyseven percent of the Army Guard were mobilized. Two of the eight mobilized divisions saw action in Korea, and well over fifty percent of combat missions were flown by reservists, a good percentage of whom were Air Guard pilots. Said one Continental Army official in the Army...