Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farnsworth obtained a batch of photographs showing U. S. battleships. Before turning his own copy of the supposedly secret Navy handbook over to the Japanese, Farnsworth said, he had checked it with a more recent edition belonging to a Navy Department friend. He insisted he had never received a cent for any of this material, nor had he obtained the employment he sought. Protested this onetime Naval officer: "Whatever I gave them, it was nothing that could injure the United States. . . . After all I am an American." Four days later he admitted receiving $1,000 for two articles on Naval...
...fact that the $600,000 paid was for services rendered by the carriers prior to the cancelation of their contracts; the fact that the carriers withdrew their claims for damages in toto; the fact that the Government paid not one cent in reparation for the cancelation; the fact that nearly 20 top men of the airline companies had to be summarily ousted before the Government would consider proposals for new airmail contracts; and the fact that the canceled contracts were not reinstated, but new contracts were placed on a strictly competitive basis in accordance with the law; are conclusive evidence...
...Actress Hayes testified that the cinema interviews were in accurate, that she had never made such quoted remarks as "MacArthur has a fawn-like face, maddeningly beautiful." After three days, Miss Frink suddenly called off the suit, paid court charges. Said her attorney: "She didn't want a cent. She just wanted a chance to tell her story...
...Clothes wanted. I am paying fifty per cent higher cash prices than any other dealer for your cast-off clothing. Old Clothes, Watches, Chains, Diamonds, Bric-a-Brac, Furniture, Carpets, etc. Suits, $3 to $20, trousers $1 to $5. Remember Max Keezer...
...them still active pastors. Such Presbyterian laymen as Andrew William Mellon and Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays have given and helped raise funds for the Board, and last year Secretary Master was able proudly to announce that with assets of $40,000,000 it had not lost a cent since 1928 (TIME, Oct. 21). Also proudly, Dr. Master announced last month that the Board has divested itself of 200 shares of du Pont stock because "2% of their stock is in powder...