Word: pers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's unusual total was caused partly by the fact its scholarships each are worth $300 per year, considerably more than those at the state universities which comprise most of the Conference...
...death rate of babies had been reduced 25% (from 68 to 51 per...
Because ships cannot be built overnight, war has immensely increased the value of every old ship in existence. The fifth month of World War II found charter rates up from their pre-war price of $3 or $4 a ton per month to $25. Freight rates had zoomed as high as 400% to war-zone ports. Of 86 U. S. ships withdrawn from European trade by the Neutrality Act, all but a handful had been re-employed on other trade routes or chartered. The Maritime Commission had approved the sale or change of registry of over 70 vessels, announced that...
...pointed out that the economy measures, which resulted in laying-off 18 workers in the Business School kitchens, were necessary because the dining halls were running a deficit despite the high board rate of $10.50 per week. Substantially all the waiters of the School are now students, but it is thought that more could be employed in pantry and kitchen work...
...meeting on Thursday night of the unions representing the waitresses and the kitchen workers, which include over 90 per cent of all the dining-hall help, the economies in the Business School were attacked as fore-runners of a general move on the part of the University to substitute students for employees...