Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recent surveys show that 45 per cent of the employees are members of unions of their own choosing which are not affiliated with national unions and that about 10 per cent are members of what is known as organized labor, while the balance of the employees deal individually with their employers...
...frank debate with General Johnson questioned the soundness of the latter's request that hours be decreased and payrolls augmented too. The objection made was against any inflexible rule or percentage. It was asserted that the consumer industries are in good shape and that less than ten per cent of the unemployed today are from those consumer businesses, whereas reliable figues show that 90 per cent of the idle originally were at work in heavier industries or service businesses related to them...
...Weinsberg, Germany, whither he fled from the U. S. as a draft-dodger 14 years ago, Grover Cleveland Bergdoll wrote his first public letter to the Philadelphia Record. Rebutting charges that he had bribed his way to freedom from his Army captors, Dodger Bergdoll declared: "I never paid a cent of graft to anyone in the world, and I never intend to. If I were given to bribery I could easily have bribed myself into a rocking-chair job in the Army or Navy during the War and would have avoided all the trouble...
Looking over the new tax rates and the schedule in the present law, Uncle Sam gets about $30,000 out of every corporation officer who earns $100,00 a year. When the salary gets up to $200,000, the Government gets more than 40 per cent, namely about $86,000. If a salary reaches $1,000,000, which is a rare case, the Government gets...
...radio and he wouldn't want an automobile if you gave him one. A car in Mexico is a liability. If he is ill, his good wife who invariably knows a great deal about herbs can buy the required dose at the market for a third of a cent. This failing, he can attend a one-peso consultation held every afternoon for the poor by the very best surgeons in the capital...