Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Board of Trade, he must have been a sorely disappointed man last week. The Board of Trade barred short sales by foreign governments. Soviet shorts covered their position. The Federal Farm Board, through its grain corporation, began to buy again. Yet within the week September wheat slumped 7 cents per bu. to a 24-year-rec-ord low of 74½ cents, as compared with the 5 cent-per-bu. decline the week Soviet traders were accused of deliberately trying to depress the market to demoralize U. S. husbandmen (TIME, Sept...
...they have no right to criticize the kind of government which they will get. If men are elected to public office by only a small proportion of those qualified to vote, the majority deserve to be misrepresented. In 1922, for instance, 13 U.S. Senators received less than 30 per cent, of the possible vote in their respective states, and the lowest received but 9 per cent...
...with its policy of "underselling by 6% all competitors who do not sell for cash." Yet last week Gimbels parried with the flattest lie-direct yet seen in the war. "Forget it!" screeched the Gimbels advertisement, "Don't you believe for a minute that you can save a cent (to say nothing of six per cent) by buying for cash. . . . Gimbels prices are often a dollar less but rarely a penny more. . . . Gimbels will not be undersold...
...Normal is based on the average for the past ten years, with 4 per cent being added each year to take care of normal growth...
Near the height of artistic anonymity are those painstaking workmen in government office who scratch designs for postage stamps on metal dies. For every hundred philatelists who know the value of a one-cent postoffice Mauritius ($20,000) scarcely one knows the name of its engraver, J. Barnard. No such anonymity is the fate of Stamp Engraver Sanchez Toda, designer of the Spanish Goya memorial stamps which reached U. S. post offices last week. Cables carried his name round the world, foreign reformers held high their hands in horror...