Word: cent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...song was heard, last week, issuing from the capacious lungs of Jesse Holman Jones, 100 per cent Houstonian, who had dazzled the eyes of the Democratic Party to which he promised wealth unaccustomed and unhoped for, on the sole condition that the 1,089 delegates, together with their alternatives, wives and bosses, should convene at Houston to nominate a candidate for the President of the United States. Capitalist Jones had built the bower. He was ready for his love...
...Emma C. Barker, who serves "the chief's" 60-cent luncheons at the Department of Commerce, told the New York World that "the chief" relishes peanuts...
...corporation is Consolidated Merchandising Corp., and is a merging, through F. J. Lisman & Co. (investment bankers), of important vending machine manufacturers: Automatic Merchandising Corp. of America (United Cigar Stores has a large share in this one); Sanitary Postage Service Corp. (its machines sell one and two cent stamps in 30,000 drug stores, ten postoffices); General Vending Corp. (36,000 ubiquitous automatic weighing machines) ; Hoff Vending Corp. (Wrigley gums, Life Savers candies); Seher Mack Corp. of America; Remington Service Machines, Inc. Remington Arms Co. is to manufacture these mechanical merchants...
...Griest Bill-reducing postal rates on second, third and fourth class matter and restoring the one-cent postcard. Publishers and by-mail advertisers were pleased. The reductions will cut Post Office revenues some...
...Oklahoma City, Editor Carl Williams of the Oklahoma Farmer-Stockman said: "Some farm politicians will be there, but not many farmers. Actual surveys show that, in the Southwest at least . . . less than 30 per cent, [of farmers] have been definitely in favor of the McNary-Haugen bill...