Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bryant's bosses saw his stunt. Caught, Bryant apologized, poured back the fluid, worth only about half a cent. Nevertheless, his employers gave him his week's pay (about $20) and fired...
...Ottawa's retail stores, but sometimes there are bargains, and for most buyers there is fascination in the sprawling confusion of the stalls. Gene Gauthier knew what he wanted for his vegetables before he got to market last week: 35? for a dozen ears of corn, a cent apiece for cucumbers, 25? for an 11-quart basket of tomatoes, 10? for a 5-lb. bag of carrots. Some farmers sprinkle their vegetables with water to make them look fresher, but Gene feels that makes them soggy and pulpy...
...Cent. Then Hiss added a few details of his experience with Crosley. When Crosley, his wife and baby were ready to move into the Hiss apartment, their furniture had not yet arrived. As a result, said Hiss, he invited the Crosleys to spend "two, or three or four consecutive nights" in his Georgetown house...
...spite of his hospitality, Hiss insisted, Crosley had never paid a nickel for either apartment or the old Ford car. On the contrary, he had touched Hiss for $35 to $40 in loans. Said Hiss: "I never got back a red cent in currency. But he brought me a rug as part payment. I still have...
...unending making of provisions for the next winter. "In those primitive days," he said, "social security was had from the cellar, not from the federal government." He recalled how he earned his first money: "I entered into collective bargaining by which it was settled that I should receive one cent per hundred for picking potato bugs in a field in sight of this stand. My impression then, and now, is that it was an oppressive wage rate...