Word: cent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chain Stores. To the McCrory Stores Corp., operating 199 stores (Five and Ten Cent), came the 1-year-old Swingle's 5 Cent to $1 Stores, Inc., with 15 stores; 1927 sales...
...buyer is passing, that of the stylist beginning. But not all expensive stores are abreast of the merchandizing times. Leaders among fashion-conscious shops are Macy's (Manhattan department store), Woolworth's (5-and-10 cent chain stores...
...royalties due her from The Bird of Paradise, alleged plagiarism of her play In Hawaii. Oliver Morosco, producer, Richard Walton Tully, writer, were the defendants. Morosco has recently recovered from bankruptcy, Tully's resources are undetermined. Since 1914, birthyear of the play, Author Fendler has not received a cent, is not sure she ever will...
...accident policy, open to any employe from President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., to Jacob Hazay, who works a grinding machine at the Detroit plant. Jacob Hazay earns $32 a week. To share in the insurance plan, he must pay a premium of $1.50 a month, or about one cent on every dollar he makes. If he dies, Mrs. Hazay will get $2,000. If he falls ill, of any sickness, he will be paid $15 a week for as long as 13 weeks. The 14th week, a doctor says that he can never return to work. He then is paid...
...from a high place, as befits the wise, You will not see the long windrows of men Strewn like dead pears before the Henry House Or the stonewall of Jackson breathe its parched Devouring breath upon the failing charge. . . . The Significance. "What America needs is a good five cent cigar"-and not till now has it had an adequate story or poem of the Civil War (aside from Walt Whitman's Lincoln). Yet, the Civil War surpasses in colorful drama any other episode in U. S. history, and Poet Benet proves it so. Delving into that not quite forgotten...