Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another gin, although Mrs. Hunkle protested she would get "tiddly" and then I walked her home. In her miserable little 90-cent room with its gas fire and no other heat, Mrs. Hunkle took off her atrocious hat and sat down. I didn't, since there was only one chair...
...could resell his stock to U.A. at an "equitable" price; if he delivered less than five, as was now the case, he had no rights in the stock at all. Despite David's claims to have bought the stock outright, said Mary, he had actually never paid a cent for it until a month ago, when he handed U.A. a check...
...moment, the industry is plagued by odd-cent price rises (e.g., candy bars have gone up to 6?), which have forced operators to either 1) continue selling for a nickel and absorb the rise themselves or 2) charge a dime and pack 4? change in with each bar. But the industry hopes to lick this problem with a machine that will make change for any coin...
...look at the rent situation after the abolition of controls in 1919 illustrates what may happen again. Rentals rose from 25 to 150 per cent in that one year. Within three years, they had gone up 312 per cent, due both to the lack of controls and the shortage of houses. In most ways, the country finds itself in a parallel situation today; indeed, in the housing shortage a problem exists which is now much more critical than after World War I. This condition alone makes the maintenance of rent-controls imperative, for even when prices of other commodities decline...
Agreement has been general on the Committee that at least part of the representation on the Council should be effected by House elections. If the new proposals are adopted, nominations will be made from the floor at an open meeting in the Houses, under Council auspices, with 15 per cent of the House membership constituting a quorum...