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Even cotton manufacturers, who have not been able to plead higher raw-material prices, have pushed broadcloth prices up from 4 to 25%, print cloth 13 to 14% anyway. By December this wholesale price situation had raised store prices from one to four percent over pre-war levels for suits, underwear, sheets and blankets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War & Prices | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

These people, to give but one example, have the possibility of pocketing up to 160 percent dividends from the ammunition industry. They say that if these German methods gain ground and prove victorious all this will stop. They are right. I believe six per cent sufficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany Against The World: Hitler to his People | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...England in one degree or an other is favored by 87 percent of the undergraduate body according to a sampling poll conducted last week by the Student Defense League and released today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poll Shows Students Favor Aid To Britain | 12/18/1940 | See Source »

Ordinary pungent incense smoke, said they, kills many kinds of nose and throat germs. Next best disinfectant is smoldering cardboard, damped with a two percent solution of potassium nitrate and dried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Odour of Sanctity | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...Sixty percent of Harvard purchases are classical records, while the remaining forty consist of popular pieces. The latter classification divides into smooth and hot numbers with the sweeter songs enjoying a twenty-five to fifteen percent lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sentimental and Spanish Tunes Top Favorites Among Students | 12/6/1940 | See Source »

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