Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extend it to those products which have as yet felt no benefit. If we cannot do this one way, we will do it another. Do it we will." President Roosevelt squared off at critics of his recovery program like Keith Neville of Nebraska (see p. 11). "Ninety per cent, of complaints come from misconception. For example, it has been said that NRA has failed to raise the price of wheat and corn and hogs. . . ." He reminded people that the "pillars" of recovery were the NRA for industry, the A. A. A. for agriculture. Another pillar, "the money of the country...
...been repaid and interest was being paid on the rest. Every bit of $80,000,000 had been paid to contractors (for construction of the new Cuban Capitol and of a highway the length of the island) on work certificates approved by the Secretary of Public Works. Not a cent had been paid to ex-President Machado or other officials. Later Chase Vice President Shepard Morgan admitted that General Enoch Crowder, then U. S. Ambassador to Cuba, had given "a horseback opinion that the $100,000,000 project would be in violation of the Platt Amendment" and that...
Last year 9,131 men from 546, or nearly 90 per cent, of the approved pre-medical colleges took the examinations. Of this number 107 were Harvard students. Since they are now ordinarily one of the requirements, it is practically obligatory for men to take them. Not only those candidates who have already completed their requirements are eligible, but also those who will have done so in time to enter next fall...
TIME ERRS BADLY IN STORY ON ESQUIRE MAGAZINE ISSUE OF OCTOBER SIXTEENTH STOP MENS STORES HAVE NO MORE INTENTION OF GIVING AWAY COPIES OF ESQUIRE THAN OF GIVING AWAY GARTERS SOCKS HANDKERCHIEFS OR ANY OTHER FIFTY CENT RETAIL ARTICLES STOP ESQUIRE IS SOLD THROUGH MENS STORES SIMPLY AND SOLELY BECAUSE IT IS A MANS PRODUCT AND MENS STORES ARE ITS MOST LOGICAL POINT OF SALE. . . . THERE IS NO BASIS ON WHICH A MAN CAN GET A FREE COPY OF ESQUIRE ON WHICH HE COULD NOT GET A FREE COPY OF TIME...
...comparison of Cambridge prices with the average price prevailing in Boston reveals the fact that rates in the metropolis are about thirty three per cent lower; the usual charge here is twelve dollars a month, while the average fee of Boston garages amounts to eight dollars. The car tenders of the Square have given the excuse that they have been forced to raise prices due to the NRA; this seems merely a feeble evasion which collapses with a sickening thud when faced with the fact that the garage men's code has not yet been signed, and that Boston garages...