Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loving Britons will stir less sugar into their afternoon pick-me-up as a result of a half-cent-a-pound increased tariff on sugar...
...president, Ernest Tener Weir, still gloomily sitting out Roosevelt, has meanwhile refunded $65,000,000 worth of debt to save half a million a year by lower interest rates. Saving every cent he could, getting the largest possible slice of business to be had, Weir last week denied that National is about to build another plant. Said he: "We won't invest in the Chicago area till the country gets back on its feet." Thus temporarily sparing Big Steel the headache of stiff competition in another market, E. T. Weir went off to Bermuda...
...large enough return on its investments. If it were to build such a project and to charge rents low enough to minimize the cost to the instructor of educating his children, even were the land not to be tax-free, the University still would get over a six per cent annual return on its investment, thereby raising its annual income...
...picket committee claims that the company's business has fallen off by 90 per cent since the strike began, and they hope that it will not be necessary to stay out on strike during the lucrative commencement week...
...these Freshmen who tutored, the average attendance at the History I lectures and section meetings is 86 per cent, and the average estimated amount of reading is 76 per cent. It was noted that Yardlings are more strictly held to regular attendance at lectures than are upperclassmen...