Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nineteen per cent of those who voted for Roosevelt in 1932 now vote against him. Thirty-four per cent of those who voted for Hoover in 1932 now vote for Roosevelt...
...England Confectionery: Atlanta's Nunnally; Philadelphia's Stephen F. Whitman. Brandle & Smith; St. Louis' National Candy; Pittsburgh's Hardie Bros.; Milwaukee's Robert A. Johnston, Ziegler; Chattanooga's Brock Candy. Depression has hit the candy industry's gaudy heroes. Ten cent bars were reduced to 5? and even those were too expensive for children whose mothers doled them out a penny at a time for candy. Candy bars fell off severely while bulk penny candy shot up. The $1 and $2 boxes of fine candy were reduced as the packages grew plainer...
...Nine-cent copper was preceded by the broadest buying in months (see p. 56). Cocoa trading (5½? per Ib.) was the heaviest of the year. Hides were strong, and sugar hit a four-year high at 1.88? per pound for May futures. Wool was inactive at 90? per Ib. Silver trading has slowed to a practical standstill since announcement of a proposed 50% tax on all profits derived from sales of bullion to the Government, and the price has hung around 45? per ounce. Side by side with climbing commodity prices this spring has been an expanding public interest...
Distant memories of the October day when President Roosevelt met with a cold reception at the gateway to his own college have faded far into the past with the tremendous approval which has been showered on him by the CRIMSON-Literary Digest poll. While Harvard was 73.74 per cent for Hoover in 1932, it is now 65.11 per cent for the Roosevelt policies. This change of feeling cannot come as a great surprise to many people; it would have been startling if the College had still maintained its support for the Republican Administration...
...University of New York and Virginia continues to maintain the ratio of the earlier returns, Yale, Cornell, Brown, and Wisconsin report heavy gains for the Democratic administration this week. Wisconsin has the largest proportion of "Yes" votes and Illinois, reported for the first time, has the smallest, 57.46 per cent, but even that is larger than the entire state ratio. The Harvard ratio is 65.05 per cent in favor of the policies and 34.95 per cent dissenting...