Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compromises with technological progress. Five years ago he called a ban on recording, kept it on tight for 27 months, eventually won a settlement under which the recording companies paid A.F.M. a royalty on every disc they made. Last year the royalties amounted to about $2,000,000 (every cent of it went to unemployed musicians, says Petrillo...
From the two national conventions have emerged two programs for electioneering which, agreeing on these common aims, will supplement each other rather than conflict. One looks to the need for improving labor's stock in the public eye: this is the AFL's 38-cent per member assessment for a $3,000,000 propaganda agency. The other moves to intensify labor's block-by-block doorbell ringing; this is PAC's registration drive to bring out 60,000,000 voters next Fall, 12,000,000 more than...
Marshall Field's rival Chicago Sun went tabloid this week, dropped its price a cent, and found a neat answer to a perennial breakfast table question: Who gets the paper? The Sun sports and financial sections were contained in a "pullout," which husbands could take to the office, leaving the rest unmussed for the missus. For suggesting the idea, Sports Editor Dick Hackenberg got a $600 bonus...
...what most amazed Mrs. Brown-and her husband, too, when he returned was that the whole operation didn't cost them a cent...
...vast "Kid's World Community Center" for industrial education, vocational education, recreation and study. Sheriff Guthrie raided the Dallas slot machines and turned over the money to the Padre. The Center would cost about a million dollars. To Dallas, the Padre and his work were worth every cent...