Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train at Hanover, N. H. next September with resources of less than $1,050 for the nine months following will soon find himself a victim of acute financial anxiety. He will need that sum to pay his tuition, his room & board and incidentals and there will not be a cent left for clothing, travel or amusement. If he plans to join a fraternity he will have to scrape up an additional $100 or $150. And if he is going to live like his other classmates at Dartmouth, he will find by next June that his outlay has been...
...after their action in Knoxville. Al Capone's highjacking bandits never did a more outrageous piece of robbery than the Tennessee Valley Authorities did in the case of the Tennessee Electric Power and Light Co. The idea of forcing a transaction such as they did and allowing not one cent for the stockholders is one of the greatest pieces of economic injustice that even the New Deal, whose new dealers are very apt to deal from the bottom of the deck, has done. It only goes to show the great self-satisfaction and self-esteem of Mr. Lilienthal to send...
...California Missionary Society. To help pay for a Methodist Hospital in Los Angeles, the Society in booming 1928 had Bitting & Co. float a $600,000 bond issue. In 1931 the Society paid off $55,000 of the principal, in 1933 made one interest payment. Not one other cent has it paid. By July 1, 1934 it had defaulted $67,000 principal, $59,950 interest...
...scientific quest of Assistant Director Robert Hoppock of National Occupational Conference. He asked groups of teachers if they were happy in their work, why or why not. One-fourth of the unhappy teachers had been so from youth when they had wanted to run away from home. Thirty per cent of them felt that their jobs made them do things that hurt their consciences, and 40% thought there was too much politics in school work. Happy teachers, on the other hand, were more religious, less troubled by conscience and politics. More of them than of the malcontents were married...
...paper on city real estate and business loans, the Fond du Lac State Bank closed late last May owing 1,789 depositors $241,412. A month ago its insured deposits were turned over to FDIC when the directors failed to agree on plans for a reorganization. Ninety-nine per cent of the depositors will be paid in full. Under the Temporary Insurance Plan (guaranteeing accounts of $2,500 or less), $125.000 of the bank's deposits are covered?less than 4 100th of 1% of the FDIC's present capital...