Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year's members, stockholders of the Harvard Cooperative Society nominated sixteen new officials for the organization at their annual meeting Wednesday. These include executive officers, stockholders, and other directors. As was the policy last year, the Coop will pay dividends on the basis of 7 per cent. for charge accounts and 9 per cent. on cash...
...Suez Canal, has she forgotten how many objections and obstacles she put up to de Lesseps from 1854 to 1869 when it was completed, due to his perseverance, and that of the money that built it, not a cent was English? And that in 1875 when she realized the canal's use to her Eastern route, she tried to gain control of it by buying 176.602 shares? And that today French directors of the Suez Canal Co.. which controls it, are 21 to the 10 British, while the French-owned stock is 56% to Britain's 44%? And that...
Pledges have been received for about 60 per cent of the amount up to this date of last year...
Fifteen per cent of the men enrolled are over 30 pointing to the fact that the men already started in business who feel they need special training, but cannot see their way clear to two full years, make use of this chance to shorten the period of training...
...Winner Howard the $4,500 prize money came in handy. A married airmail pilot with a distinguished racing record, he constantly designs new racing planes, had sunk his last cent in Mister Mulligan. A dark, lanky, unostentatious man of 31, he contrasts strongly with swashbuckling, peacocky Colonel Turner, who last week thirsted for revenge, waited impatiently for the final spectacular Thompson Trophy Race in which he hoped to regain his laurels as No. 1 U. S. speedster...