Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ball rolling against the dogged opposition of bankers holding delinquent mortgages, landlords with vacant property. The R. F. C. whose friends boasted that it would soon sweep slums out of existence has authorized one building loan of $3,957,000 to a Bronx, N. Y. concern but not one cent in cash has yet been made in advance to commence construction...
Meanwhile the bond market has voiced ever lower opinion of the future of Japanese credit. But it hinted strongly at U. S. recognition of Russia under the Roosevelt regime. Last week Russian Imperial 5½% bonds, which sold last summer at about half a cent on the dollar, rose to four cents on the dollar...
...distribution of students is very wide, men coming from many states in the middle West and the West, including the States bordering the Pacific. The majority of men are college men who were graduated in the spring of '32, this majority consisting of 26 per cent of the entire group...
...distinguishing trait. A good illustration of this was the time when, having only fifteen dollars between him and the park bench, he dined on caviar. Strassbourgh goose liver, and champagne to the tune of twelve dollars, left a three dollar tip, and then stalked royally out without a cent in his pocket...
...only near solution to the problem is that discovered by Detroit. There some philanthropist has established a "Penny Cafeteria," a restaurant which sells food at the price of one cent a dish. The place is clean and respectable, and it differs from soup kitchen in that those who patronize it suffer no more in morale than the patrons of the Georgian restaurant or the University dining halls. Detroiters may buy in the downtown stores tokens designed for sidewalk charity, worth a cent each at the "Penny Cafeteria," but honored as currency nowhere else. Thus the casual passerby is assured that...