Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ounce and then stabilization will come. For the last several days the price of gold was unchanged, but in the last 24 hours the Treasury has advanced it again. Before stabilization is decided upon, the administration is anxious to have the dollar depreciated as close to 50 cents as possible when measured in terms of gold, but there are many experts here who think that stabilization itself will produce a rebound from a 50-cent level to about 66 cents due to the sudden demand from abroad for dollars on the part of American owners of capital in Europe...
Second, the establishment of a 25 per cent ratio of gold to all currency or notes issued by the Federal Government...
Seventh, adjustment of private debts through the passage of the McKeownLa Guardia bill, providing that when '66 2-3 per cent of the creditors of a corporation agree upon a plan of settlement or reorganization, this shall be binding upon the minority. The proposal passed the House, but failed in the Senate last February and was not pressed in the extra session...
...dressing room and drew another remark out of the actor. "Right, you've got to be careful what you say and do. You're just one among several millions of attentive germs on concrete space, and audiences as well as actors (with a chuckle) are 60 to 40 per cent ego, which is 40 to 60 per cent vanity and the substance of our existence...
Nagel does not agree with President Roosevelt's statement that movie stars are overpaid. He said: "Take Mae West--she was the whole attraction in her picture, 'She Done Him Wrong.' The picture took in about $2,500,000; and yet Miss West probably received less than two per cent of that figure. As long as she brings in the box receipts, she should get the money; because in ten years probably no one will know who Mae West...