Word: cents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that affect newspaper publishing. ..." For the Times, the extra penny will mean increased annual revenue of about $1,000,000, for the Herald Tribune more than $500,000. Since the beginning of last year, more than 200 publishers have raised their papers' prices-some to 5?. The two-cent paper, once ubiquitous in the U. S., is gradually disappearing...
...automobile accident, he turned 21. Up to that day in October 1935, says Jackie, he managed to get along on a $6.25 weekly allowance. Day before his 21st birthday he got $1,000, heard his mother say next day, about the rest: "You haven't got a cent. There never has been one cent belonging to you. It's all mine." Year later Arthur Bernstein married Lillian Coogan. One day the Kid hauled off, knocked Arthur rump over teakettle. From that day on, the Coogan mansion was not big enough for both of them...
...Jackie was trying, and failing miserably, to make a living as a grownup. He wanted to marry blonde, lissome Actress Betty Grable. Mrs. Bernstein telephoned Betty's mother. "If Betty thinks she's marrying a rich boy," she piped, "she is mistaken. He hasn't a cent. He's a pauper." Last November Betty married Jackie anyway, began to support him on her Paramount Pictures salary of $500 a week. Since then Jackie has earned exactly $1,000, the result of two weeks' work with his wife in Paramount's College Swing, released this...
...puffed with pride, became a little businessman, played host to admirers in his café on Fisherman's Wharf. When the time came round to sign a contract for his junior year, Little Businessman Di Maggio refused $25,000. He thought he was worth $40,000-not a cent less. Remembering well that Yankee Babe Ruth once got $80,000 a year from Owner Jacob Ruppert, Di Maggio held out all through the spring training season...
...Young Communist League yesterday came into conflict with the Federal Government when they distributed fliers in House mailboxes in the early hours of the morning without paying the required one and one-half cent postage...