Word: cent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WILL ANYONE LEND LADY £50 for 12 months, 10 per cent.? ? Write Box T.1218, The Times, E.C.4...
Interlude. On the New York Curb, Standard Oil of Indiana stock jumped to a new high of 103½, partly because of ill-founded rumors that Mr. Rockefeller Jr. and Col. Stewart were buying. Actually, the total turnover on the Curb was only one per cent of Standard Oil of Indiana stock; and the big warriors were not bothering with that tiny fraction. The stock dropped to 95 at the end of the week...
Today England's "popular dance tunes" are 75 per cent U. S. jazz...
...Nearly 45 per cent of the females now practicing prostitution in Moscow came from the provinces to work as servants. When such peasant girls lose their positions and are unable to find others, they seem afraid to return home, or unwilling to give up city life, and therefore they prostitute themselves...
...shop, and after working for several years started a little business of his own in Chicago. At the World's Fair of 1893 he paid 5¢ to see an elephant switch its tail in the Edison kinetoscope, the first crude moving-picture machine. Author Will Irwin says: "That five-cent piece was the initial investment which grew into his present fortune...