Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Louisiana has been familiar with his ranting campaigns against what he calls "entrenched wealth." The State has less than 20 millionaires with only one vote apiece. Most of them suffered in impotent silence but Henry Hardtner, Alexandria lumber and oil man. publicly declared: "I'll never invest another cent in Louisiana while that lying crook is in power...
Last week Secretary of Agriculture Hyde put the nation on notice that all purchasers of produce on which farmers have borrowed from the Government are individually liable for payment of the debt. Buyers must pay the loan direct to Secretary Hyde before the farmer gets a cent for his crop. The Government's first lien means that the producer who has borrowed will get at present price levels, little or no cash on his sale...
...Cole, manager of the Harvard Cooperative Society, announced, yesterday that the Coop would distribute dividends amounting to over $79,000. It was not found necessary to reduce the rate on the dividends, which remains the same as in previous years, ten per cent on cash purchases and eight per cent on charge purchases made during the fiscal year ending June...
Anticipating a further reduction in the volume of business, the Society made a ten per cent reduction in salaries at the beginning of the present fiscal year. In addition, the personnel of the Society was reduced by six employees...
...Houses. For those who object to paying for a private installation the system used in Randolph Hall is ideal. There every study is fitted with a telephone, which operates from a private exchange for the building. The only charge to the occupants of the suites is a five cent toll on each outside call which they make. Calls originating outside, or wholly within the building, are free. Since all the rooms in the Houses are already wired for telephones, there should be no serious objection to equipping every House as Randolph is equipped...