Word: cents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newark, N. J., Mrs. Frances MacFarquhar, suing for divorce, submitted her diary in evidence. Excerpts: "January 28-Blackened my eye because I bought a fifteen-cent cake and did not turn over the change; March 13-He tripped me and tried to kick me through a window; March 26-He knocked me into the bathtub; June 12-He chased me with a hammer. . . ." Plaintiff MacFarquhar got the divorce...
...stamp scrip" of the economist Gesell is the money plan which Pound advocates. This would mean a monthly stamp of 1 per cent on the value of the scrip issued by the government, and would do away with taxes and replace them with "taxed money, based on national production," he said...
Fifty-four per cent of the upperclassmen who took History I went to cramp parlors for their instruction. Only 35% of the students in Government I received aid; French E comes next with 27%, and Economics A is third with...
Catching the price a cent below what they last paid, the auto companies came in. Copper sales picked up; in a few days twice as much was sold as in the month of March, copper finishing mills kept running at 50% to 60% of capacity. Loss to corper companies on the cut: $1,200,000. Saving to auto manufacturers: nearly 60 per unit & parts (mostly radiators...
...background, the poll revealed no great difference from University Hall estimates. About 78 per cent of the tutoring upperclassmen come from an urban center, and about 65 per cent prepared at a private secondary school...