Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high and ever-rising American tariff has prevented us from developing an excess of imports. Indeed, so high have been our duties that for many years over 95 per cent of the manufactured articles consumed in the United States have been domestic products. Not only were rates raised in 21921 and again in 1922, but whenever a commodity began to flow over the tariff will in appreciable quantities the Tariff Commission was disposed to recommend that the President use his authority under the so-called "flexible" clause to increase the duty...
...almost incredible economic folly. Unlike some recent foreign tariff changes, revision of our tariff was not needed either to protect our exchanges from depreciation or to guard our gold sup plies from depletion. On the contrary, the tariff law was passed when we possessed approximately 40 per cent of the world's monetary gold and when, as has been said, we were attracting large additional amounts...
...able to borrow for 1⅜%. Last week, thanks to what Tammany had done to its credit, it had to pay 6%, on its stock notes, the highest rate in its history. For floating this loan which the investing public fairly gobbled up. the syndicate charged not one single cent for commissions or services, took its reward in a sense of civic duty well done. Temporarily rescued, Tammany's Walker remarked: "Talk about the market! My blood pressure dropped seven points today to 103, a new low!"* In Chicago where municipal credit has long been at rock bottom, financial...
...Culbertson returned to Manhattan from a holiday in Havana, following his bridge victory over Sidney S. Lenz, to announce that he had just invested "every cent" of his money in U. S. stocks. Said he: "I am making the biggest bet of my life. . . . My bid actually is that we turn the second corner in about two months...
...long vista of warrantable gloom, this is indeed a cause of cheer. For not only have 92 per cent of the 24,345 students voting declared, in general terms, for reduction of armament; no fewer than 63 per cent have urged independent disarmament by the United States without waiting for other countries...