Word: cents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maids get a two cent pay increase, bringing wages up to 40 cents an hour...
...pianist, though he is extremely pleased at having once made some Ampico player-piano rolls of some of his song hits. Ampico still contributes something to his income. From time to time it sends him long, involved, incomprehensible royalty statements, with royalty enclosed. The enclosure: a ten-cent postage stamp...
...condenses more rapidly. The sun frequently ejects matter from its atmosphere and R Coronae Borealis may very well do likewise. This cast-off material, reasons Astronomer O'Keefe, condenses rapidly, since it is carbon, and forms a sooty cloud which obscures the light of the stars. One per cent of the total amount of carbon in the atmosphere of R Coronae Borealis could cut out 99% of its light. Astronomer O'Keefe supposes that as the cloud dissipates the stars appear bright again...
...five million dollar project, for which Lyons asked permission for a grant of 45 per cent of the total from the PWA received a setback when the Legislature voted down its part in the proceedings. Lyons said, however, that he would continue fighting for his plan, principal effect of which on Harvardians would be the removal of the pill-box in the center of Harvard square...
...lined with several million dollars. Blue-eyed, quiet, he belies his repute as a plunger. His greatest coup was last June's buying of an entire $60,000,000 issue of Pennsylvania Tax Notes. His astute bid of $109,928,008 plus $500 was high by precisely one cent. Christopher Devine then unloaded the entire $60,000,000 in 45 minutes...