Word: 25c
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private car, journeying to his home to shave him on Sundays. Last week Banker English gave Barber Wagner a two months' holiday in Europe. Was this, people asked, the correct tip for Mr. Wagner's period of service? What is the right pourboire for a 25c shave? For $1 worth of shave, haircut and conversation? The tip for a 25c shave is ten cents, critics recently agreed. A talkative barber may be snubbed with no tip. It is not necessary to tip a man who shaves you every day, but you should give him something at Christmas...
Gillette Safety Razor, at Boston, daily makes 2,000,000 razor blades to double-edge keenness, machines 75,000 razors to precise balance. Its net income for six months: $6,093,674. Last week directors declared the regular 75c quarterly dividend, graced it with an extra 25c a share...
Since the Italian debts to the U. S. and Britain have been heavily scaled down and funded (Italy paying the U. S. a doubtful 25c on the $1), the Italian government found itself last week in a position to undertake enterprises and expenditures which otherwise would not have been financially prudent. Examples...
...last week they were startled and then they began to laugh again. He had lowered a tariff. He had lowered the duty on live bobwhite quail valued at less than $5.00 a head, from 50 to 25c each. The duty was lowered at the request of the game wardens of several states. There was practically no opposition. It was claimed that the duty of 50c was more than the difference between the cost of producing live bobwhites in the U. S. and in the principal competing country,- Mexico...
...gave up the practice, the State Gasoline Commission having reached an agreement with dealers that they would maintain a fair price. Last week Governor Carl Gunderson ordered 24 gasoline stations opened by the state, chiefly in county-seat towns. He argued that gasoline is now selling at about 25c. a gallon that could profitably be sold for 21 or 22c., that citizens can save $3,000,000 a year if state gasoline stations are reopened...