Word: percents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truckers' share jumped from 10% to 19%. Now, with the help of piggybacking, the roads hope to win back lost ground. Last year truck business slipped to 17.7%, while railroads just about held their own. Says Southern Pacific's Assistant General Freight Agent Ray F. Robinson: "Ninetynine percent of our piggyback business is business we never had before-freight that had been moving over the highway." The Pennsylvania Railroad alone is getting $10 million worth of new business annually by piggybacking. The Pennsy's forecast for 1960: $100 million annually. Furthermore, profits from piggybacking are often higher...
Attendance at Crimson varsity football games jumped 60 percent this year, according to figures released recently by the Ivy League Athletic Association. The increase, from 71,000 to 114,203 spectators, represented the largest attendance rise in the Ivy League this fall...
Total figures for the Ivy League indicated an overall increase in fans of 5 percent. This season's Ivy games averaged crowds of 20,647 as opposed to 18,600 last year. Playing fewer games in 1955, Brown, Cornell and Dartmouth showed slight attendance drops...
...plan originated when Clapp heard reports that 80 percent of the benefits of sleep come in the first two hours. He also discovered that "some guy in Japan" has been successful in sleeping forty minutes at a time, three times daily, for the last three and a half years. He decided to try a similar program, and Ford soon followed...
...some departments, as in English where virtually all tutors are graduate students and in History where graduate students make up 75-80 percent of the tutorial staff, it would seem essential that some effort be made to acquaint tutors with the basic workings of the system. Briefing sessions should be held at which professors who are successful and popular as tutors explain how they go about planning and executing a tutorial program. Attention should also be given to more mechanical aspects, aside from mere record keeping...