Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overhead and capital costs. If we add to this the fact that it would not be profitable for ocean-going vessels to be routed through to the middle West because of their lower paying capacity than the lake boats, that the Canadian grain trade which would be sixty per cent of the marine commerce concerned, we can see that the waterway would be not only a great debit to the American taxpayer, but a very small benefit to the Middle Western shipper...
...legislation whatsoever. Knowing that I have consistently refused employment of the nature suggested in your article, it is rather disagreeable to find myself classed by you among those lawyers and lobbyists who do handle that nature of business. . . . My influence . . . with the Administration would not be worth a five cent piece to anyone...
Besides investigators Mr. Hopkins keeps busy a set of accountants who have set up books for state relief and CWA projects, supply him with complete reports of every cent spent in every state. He was quite candid in speaking of graft to Congressional inquirers: "On work relief we may have an occasional padded payroll. . . . I think in the main [Civil Works projects] are three or four times as good as the projects under relief. . . . Political interference has been a difficulty. I would not say it is serious but it has been a difficulty. I have quit getting mad about...
...Whatever a Senior gives to the Fund this year and in each succeeding year until 1959, goes on interest with the general University funds (normally earning about five per cent). At compound interest this money should double in 14 years; so that a dollar given by a Senior now, without any further work or attention on his part, will be worth more than three dollars at the time of his Twenty-fifth celebration...
...flexible, so far as the R.F.C. is concerned, in order to help the banks carry what might otherwise be described as "slow" paper. Thus if a bank rediscounted a loan for $10,000 and received $8,000 back from the R.F.C., the bank in question might pay four per cent for that loan, whereas the customer himself might be paying six per cent on the whole $10,000. In this way the bank would be reducing its risk and increasing its chance to make money on the loan. The bill declares that no more than 10 per cent...