Word: cents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honor of Harvard's famous president, Charles Eliot, because he was a "publicist, scientist, and author as well as an educator and because he was one of America's greatest leaders of opinion," a special one cent stamp will be issued this winter, it was announced at the recent meeting of the Stamp Club...
Boast of Marion is that not a cent of new capital has been put into the business since the founders scraped together $20,000 and began operations 55 years ago. Nothing to boast of, however, are the company's net income deficits for seven of the last nine years' operations. Marion's big income comes from the sale of mining shovels and since Depression I the industries that use them have been in the dumps...
...number of requests for books at the delivery desk were filled successfully 65 per cent. of the time in 1938-39, officials estimated, while in 1937-38 only 57 per cent. of the orders were filled. This also, they said, was due to the two week withdrawal limit...
...spontaneously and unreasonably as buying had spurted, prices mounted. Sugar prices advanced from one to three cents a pound. Lard went up three cents, flour almost a cent. Meat wholesalers took advantage of the spurt in business by advancing veal, pork and beef prices from two to ten cents a pound. California canners upped canned fruit prices 5 to 30? a dozen...
...across with the money. Undaunted by the tribulations of the 1938 trip, when it was ended Promoter Rose began drumming up trade for his 1939 season. He had already collected $4,930 from prospective caravaneers ("My bird dogs"), when the ICC opened its investigation. To inquiries into a 20-cent-a-day-per-person food allowance, Promoter Rose blandly explained: "Some times we get a little something added to it, and then sometimes we get a little something taken away. . . . We will be camped in a desert, and the head cook will walk...