Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...About seventy per cent of those answering the questionnaire recently sent out by the committee are in favor of making some voluntary contribution in support of such a centre...
Between September 24 and December 31 a little over 252,000 meals were served out of the Smith Hall kitchen for the five Houses near the River, while the whole system has been serving about 10,000 meals everyday. The margin on each meal served is about one cent and the average cost per meal is 53.8 cents...
...reaction to this frantic plea, A.T. Zupp-Zupp '84, erstwhile Ibis of the "Lampoon," confessed, in a still, small voice, that it had been alarming. All those who had paid for their subscriptions sold them for what they could get (a few went for as little as one cent), though the majority yielded a quarter or so. The crisis was only slightly severer than those experienced chronically by the "Lampoon," accounting possibly for its checkered chronology. Mr. Zupp-Zupp could only express amazement that the sheet is still in circulation...
...Chinese. For them the cost of living has steadily risen. Unemployment has increased. Banks have failed. The Oriental exchange market is unsettled and will remain so while our Government continues to draw Chinese silver in abnormal amounts. A tax of ten per cent was imposed by the Chinese Government on silver exports last fall. Smuggling was the answer. Recently fines have been imposed on smugglers in amounts twice the value involved. Still Chinese silver finds its way to our Treasury...
...business, it is a great argument against, not for, Government Ownership. Witness patronage continued through all the jobs throughout the system. Witness the recent fiasco of a "balanced budget" in the Post Office department, this after the postal rates in first class mail had been raised fifty per cent. Witness the scandals about air-mail contracts. Witness the franking privilege to Congressmen. It is enough to imagine James A. Farley, or his counterpart, running the Pennsylvania Railroad, to vitiate the boast that the Government is yet capable of running a large business...