Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...service that runs from the hard physical labor of unloading provisions to curing Eskimo diseases. Although the new plan is frankly an experiment, and if it fails, the disposition of the fund will go back into the hands of the Cabinet; still it is no longer ninety-eight per cent one way and two the other. The nickel now has both a "heads" and a "tails...
...across the southern U. S. last week began the harvest of what promises to be the shortest pecan* crop in more than a decade. Government estimates for the new crop are 33,330,000 Ib. compared with a bumper yield of 95,340,000 Ib. in 1935. Not one cent will be earned by the Texas nut grove of the most eminent U. S. pecan grower, John Nance Garner. Just before he broadcast his only campaign speech from his home in Uvalde, the Vice President let it be known that his pecans were this year a total failure, declaring...
Former Justice Blcakley has cogently advanced the argument that New York contributes one of every four dollars to the entire New Deal experimentation fund, yet receives two one-hundredths of one per cent in return, while Mississippe, a typical southern state, realizes a tidy return of 466 per cent on its investment. This discrepancy is directly due to Governor Lehman's spineless acceptance of whatever scraps are thrown to him by the New Deal revelers. Here is a prime reason for every farmer and every other New York tax payer to line up behind the Republican aspirants, who show...
...three legal Harvard dispensaries, the Business School Student Club, the Eliot House grill, and the Medical School, proportions of the total consumed were 75 per cent, 15 per cent, and 10 per cent respectively...
...Deal's communism or fascism, he answers with the support given it in those years by the representatives of the decidedly non-communist and non-fascist American people. The wailing over the holding companies is irrelevant, he writes, to what is simply "a revival of old-fashioned, hundred per cent American trust busting...