Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill, which is shortly to be considered by the house Banking and Currency Committee, provides that the loans should be made only by banks which are members of the Federal reserve system. It limits the total amount to about $1,000,000,000 and stipulates that fifty per cent of this sum shall be used for loans ranging from $1,000 to $25,000 and about 33 1-3 per cent of the money shall be loaned in amounts from $25,000 to $100,000 and that the remainder, namely 16 2-3 per cent, shall take care...
Ninety-seven cent of the people who have money in the bank now are insured against loss by the government itself...
Although the Council's cash balance available for appropriation to scholarships and aids as of September 1, 1934 will be approximately $1000 if no receipts are forthcoming between now and then, every cent received by the Council from now on will be used to augment the scholarship and aid account for 1934-35. Accordingly, officers of the Student Council have issued a request for the retirement of all pledges still outstanding...
Further refinements, such as state pensions for the aged, blind, widowed, or otherwise incapacitated, a great increase in the property tax on parcels worth over $5,000, a 50 per cent inheritance tax and a stiffly graduated income tax, the substitution of scrip for money, etc., are incidental to the main project, which Sinclair expects to work out with such rapidity that after two years the historian of his reign will write, "The Governor made a last speech over the radio, saying that he had caused a thorough investigation to be made throughout the State of California, and that...
...Welles had evidently told his White House friend that the danger of a Negro uprising and race-war in depression-ridden Cuba is real. If it can be bought off with $10,000,000 worth of dollar diplomacy the price seemed cheap to Washington. Having refused to lend a cent to feed hungry, rebellious Cubans until President Mendieta had been maneuvered in, President Roosevelt was credited throughout Latin America this week with a masterly piece of "invisible intervention...