Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House Secretary Morgenthau brings his troubles. Last week he brought a proposal for the President's approval: to mint copper half cents which have not been minted since 1857, and aluminum mills, which have, up to now, been a money of account found only in school books. Object: to enable citizens to pay fractional cents of sales taxes. Franklin Roosevelt thought it was a great idea to save people money, personally sketched a "doughnut" half cent and a square mill, visioned citizens getting bargains...
...Manhattan, searching a sidewalk ora- tor they had arrested, police found only a pamphlet, entitled What To Do When Under Arrest-One Cent, published by the radical International Labor Defense. What...
...diamond for $730,000, had it insured for $1,000,000 by St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. He was told that the best way to ship it from London to the U. S. was by registered first class mail. Because it was uncut, Dealer Winston had not a cent of duty to pay when it arrived last week. Total cost to Dealer Winston for getting his huge gewgaw across the Atlantic...
Catalyst in the New Deal's complex rehabilitation formula was the Jones-Costigan Act, which established a quota system for both imports and domestic production. Hardly less important was a reduction in the tariff on Cuban sugar from 2? to nine-tenths of a cent per lb. Net result was a closed system (taking in the U.S., its insular possessions and Cuba), in which AAA could dictate supply, if not demand. Western sugar beet growers received a fat quota and benefit payment from a processing tax; duty-free producers in Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines got higher prices...
...because the regiment was his tested mouthpiece, the exhausted men were routed out of a five-hour sleep and hurried back into the front line. The optimistic general came up to the front himself, to plan and oversee the attack. He figured the probable casualties as "five per cent killed by their own barrage. . . . Ten percent lost in crossing no-man's-land, and 20 per cent more in getting through the wire." The regimental adjutant, more realistic, made out his next day's rations requisition by cutting the previous day's in half...