Word: percents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Forty percent of floe to east and west has separated. Unable to reach runway for inspection. Overcast, dark, light snow. Crack threatens to separate homer [beacon] from camp . . . Two cracks separating northern 40% of runway . . . Recommend imminent abandoning...
Food sales account for 70 percent of Cronin's gross, liquor the other 30 percent. About 1,120 gallons of beer come out of the tap each week. Cronin tends bar occasionally, and voices wise words for other bartenders: "Remain aloof yet attentive. Listen, but never give advice...
...eyes of British officialdom, Heuss brought off his four-day official visit with tact, taste and humor. Said Heuss himself, when someone tried to compliment him on the sparse cheers he received: "Don't be ridiculous. Eighty percent were cheering for the Queen. 10% were cheering the horses, and 10% were cheering me-but they were Germans...
...recession. Granite City Steel increased its labor forces from 4,943 a year ago to a record 5,050 today. During the first half of 1958. when the industry was down to 54% of capacity, Granite City ran at 86%. After rolling up the highest earnings as a percent of sales among the first 17 steelmakers in 1955, and the second-highest in 1956 and 1957, Granite City Steel's earnings dropped 38% in 1958's first half, partly because of the cost of its modernization program. But its earnings picture is once again favorable: third-quarter...
...District voters was generally in agreement with Eisenhower Administration policy-and he voted that way. Among the most startling trends was one that gives Chamberlain high hopes that the Sixth District's rank-and-file union members will not necessarily blame him for their economic troubles. Seventy-seven percent of the hourly wage earners answering a Chamberlain poll last March said they believed both labor and management should renew then-existing contracts "to avoid possible labor strife...