Word: cent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...larger centres), with 20 wavelengths in the short-wave spectrum for its own use, with a network of teletypewriter lines so that its stories would be automatically transmitted ready for use in broadcasting rooms, and with an arrangement for selling radio broadcasting for the stations on a 15 per cent commission-such was the organization visualized last week when a National Radio Press Association was incorporated under the laws of Delaware with headquarters in Manhattan...
Holland Profit. The Holland Tunnel, vehicular toll tunnel beneath the Hudson River, is making money at a rate which indicates a $5,000,000 profit for 1929. Last year's profit was about $3,600,000, and 1929 traffic has shown a 25 per cent increase. Tunnel profits are shared jointly by New York and New Jersey to repay State construction costs...
...among patient pedagogs for elaborate research and profound tabulations. Placing his tongue ever so slightly in his cheek, Dr. McAndrew tabulated his belladonna-plasters-for-seasickness research as follows: Number reporting having used bella donna plasters..............6 Number reporting having escaped from sea sickness..........6 Median.................................................................................................6 Correlation............................................................................Per cent. 100 Number seen by me who said they were wearing 'em...........5 Number of such whom I saw daily unailing..................................5 Average.................................................................................................5 Correlation.............................................................................Per cent. 100 Number of physicians questioned..................................................1 Number saying the plaster should be effacious .........................1 Per cent...
...official air mail depot for New York City and nearby points. Hadley Field had been the terminal. The changeover was not without confusion and argument. Newark's mayor, Jerome T. Congleton, zealous for good future income on the city's $7,000,000 airport investment, demanded one cent for every pound of mail delivered to the field or sent therefrom. Pitcairn Aviation (New York-Atlantic mail) and National Air Transport (New York-Chicago mail) wished to pay a flat $600 a month fee. Mayor Congleton won out at least temporarily...
...musical person in Boston, Chicago and Manhattan felt his nose a little out of joint last week on reading a widespread report of Concert Manager George Engles. Laporte, Ind., said Manager Engles, not Boston, Chicago or Manhattan, is "the most musical city in the U. S." Nine per cent of its population (15,158) attend concerts regularly as against an average 4% for the rest of the country. Newark, Ohio, rates second with 6%. Big centres like Manhattan and Chicago, despite their great opportunities, pull down the average with less than 1% attendance. Of the larger cities, Boston, according...