Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea originated with the manufacturers of ten-cent cigarettes who are finding the increased costs brought about by NRA and the Processing taxes a bit too hard for them, something they did not anticipate when they started a vigorous price war in June, 1932--and now they are pleading with the government to let them have a lower rate of taxes by the simple device of classifying cigarettes according to selling prices. These ten-cent cigarette makers insist they would pass on some of the reduction to the consumer...
...argument for the reduction is that the people would buy more 10-cent cig- arettes and hence the internal revenues would increase. Members of the House Ways and Means Committee asked in a recent hearing why, if this were true, it would not be better to make a uniform reduction in taxes on all classes of cigarettes, since this would mean a lower price to the consumer. The defenders of the new principle have not given a satisfactory answer to that question...
Forty per cent of the Harvard undergraduate student body has made application for work through the university employment office, where 1,161 students have their names on file. In the past year, students have earned $114,433 through this office, by virtue of 1,365 temporary and 537 steady jobs...
SPEAKER RAINEY'S "Wrong List." Being the names of those Democrats in Congress who have not supported President Roosevelt 100 per cent, may become the means whereby the Republicans will materially increase their strength in the November elections...
With this type of campaign appeal a Republican will have a better chance than by opposing the President 100 per cent. So will a Democrat who enters the primaries to oppose another democrat who may happen to be committed to unqualified and unconditional support of the administration...