Word: cent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Oct. 28). In truth, most of the credit for that press rate reduction between the U. S. and Japan should go to General Harbord of the Radio Corporation. General Harbord was the man who first made the startling suggestion of reducing the trans-Pacific press rate to ten cents a word. It was his constant insistence that finally got the Japanese government to the idea of even going him one cent better. Roy W. Howard, Chairman of the Board of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, in Japan as a delegate of the Kyoto Pan-Pacific Conference, gave the proposition...
...other end of the scale swim the goldfish. There are all types and varieties: cheap, ten cent fish, which do little else than swim lazily about in bowls; and expensive, showy, magnificent, beautifully plumed aquatic residents, which spend their time exhibiting class and breeding. Yet all are subject to more or less the same treatment at one time or another, whether they serve as the unsuspecting targets for the gibes of a cruel audience, or are just forgotten for a week by their feeders...
...list of 157 Freshmen who passed their entrance examinations with an average of 80 per cent or better is printed below, by authority of the Committee on Admission. The school which led in the number of graduates appearing on this list is Boston Latin School, represented by 46 members of the Class of 1933. The next largest group comes from Exeter, with 22; then St. Mark's School with 9; Brookline High School with 7; and St. Paul's School with 7. There are 48 schools represented on the list...
Grand-Silver. Southern and Midwest nickels, dimes, quarters often went to the F. & W. Grand 5-to-25 Cent Stores. Sometimes too they were spent at the Isaac Silver & Brothers Stores (5-to-$1.00). If any Southerner or Midwesterner were ever in doubt as to which of the chain stores he would rather patronize, that difficulty was removed last week when the two merged. Their combined gross business last year: $31,000,000; combined number of stores: 140. There are 554 Kresge stores, 1,802 Woolworth...
Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Third largest producer, making mostly pipes, sheets and tubes for the oil and automobile industry. Three-fourths of the plant and most of the directors located in Youngstown, Ohio. Twenty per cent stock dividend paid...