Word: 40c
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...School No. 58, Manhattan, have devised a discipline, published last week, of fining each school child five cents for each "ain't," "he don't," double negative, etc. The punishment of the child is thus visited upon the parents. One small boy ran up a bill of 40c, obliging his mother to invent eight errands for him to run at a nickel per errand...
...Passed the War Department appropriation bill of $357,000,000, providing for a standing army of 118,750 men, increasing the daily per capita food ration from 35c to 40c (TIME, Jan. 24), allowing $20,000,000 to continue the five-year program of the Air Corps. (Bill went to the Senate...
Oats. Estimated to be 1,334,260,000 bu.; was 1,501,909,000 bu. last year; sold currently at 40c to 45c a bushel. The U. S. leads the world. Canada is next with one-fourth as much. Iowa leads the U. S. Acreage was cut down from last year. Minnesota, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas report excellent crops. In northern Illinois the fields are good; but smut has appeared in the southern counties...
...food should not be in itself poisonous, 2) that it should be mixed with nothing that was not demonstrably helpful. "I do not object," said he, "to the use of cottonseed and sunflower oils as salad dressings by those who have a taste for them, but I resent paying 40c a bottle for these fats merely because they have been labeled olive oil. My battle is for the privilege of going free of robbery with a guarantee of health...