Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official of St. Claire's claimed that an 85-cent fried scallop dinner apparently marked up to $1.40 had originally been a printing error. These were the first scallops, he said, he had had in four years...
...solution for the shrinking dollar of student veterans was offered by a man who identified himself as Mr. Hayes, president of the Boston branch of the Hayes-Bickford Lunch System. In following up a complaint (verified) about the reduction in size of a ten-cent bottle of milk, an editor was explaining how student veterans were particularly affected...
Liggett's manager explained the diminished 10-cent glasses of orange juice by saying "We're checking more closely on counter girls who had been serving more than required." Of the allegedly-reduced frappes, he said it had been just a question of beating--"The more you beat it the more...
While keeping his regular 95-cent dinners at their former price, the manager of the Oxford Grille explained the 30-cent rise in deluxe dinners as being the amount of lose he had previously been taking, when the items were available. He said that his price range would not allow him to buy steaks through "independent," high-priced meat stores...
Asked if their former ceilings were still on view when they maintained a five-cent rise in hamburgers would have been allowed anyway, Hazen's failed to produce the evidence...