Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ground that if people began going to Christian plays they would end up going to un-Christian ones. But in an age before U. S. copyright laws protected the author's dramatic rights, Uncle Tom was pirated (by Actor G. L. Aiken and others), with never a cent of royalties for Mrs. Stowe...
Flint-Goodridge also boasts the cheapest, most complete hospital insurance plan in the U. S. Cost: one cent a day. Most similar schemes, covering three weeks' hospitalization, charge at least three cents a day. If he can convince his doctors, Mr. Dent will soon start a two-cent-a-day plan to provide complete medical care as well...
Seventy-five per cent of the plants are situated in rural areas, but lockermen have their eyes on the big city markets. They say, for example, that housewives can save $100 on the annual meat bill of a family of five by buying a side of beef wholesale at a little better than half the retail price and having a locker plant's butcher cut and freeze it. Apostle of this drive to invade the cities is stumpy, chipper, leather-lunged Alfred Michael Reilly, Baker's Chicago sales engineer, who has peddled ice machinery for 27 years. Weekly...
...Committee then talked to Mr. Robertson, who denied that bread and butter were ever thrown away, and said that not more than one per cent of the food cooked was ever wasted...
Week after week columnists gave loud hushes, hinted that the next crashing sound would come from the Treasury's income-tax investigation of Indiana's famed Two-Per-Cent Club. One U. S. magazine after another searingly profiled Mr. McNutt, as with blowtorches. Dry-tongued Alva Johnston smilingly cut Mr. McNutt's throat from ear to ear in last week's Saturday Evening Post...