Word: cents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wittenberg plant. But Singer is not sanguine about collecting. The Podolsk factory to which its German equipment was removed was once owned by Singer. After the Revolution in 1917, the the Soviets seized it, later agreed to pay for it. So far, Singer has not received a cent...
...meant nothing to Harry Bridges. His men were West Coast dockside workers. The Government offered them $1.37 an hour, whereas 700 A.F.L. longshoremen on the same coast get $1.38. Bridges wanted that extra cent. He stayed balky until it was too late to prevent walkouts in all major U.S. ports, then gave in with bad grace. There was an untidy rash of local stoppages which lasted until the seven unions involved could get their scattered locals to ratify the deal. Last to act were Bridges' longshoremen. After all, the deal covers them only until September 30, when their contract...
Bankers wondered if that was wise. One wondered aloud: "I guess Giannini knows what he is doing . . . but you can't get a damn cent out of real-estate loans when the bottom drops...
...good contract. He got control of an established medical and hospital insurance fund, levied ori payrolls, and previously controlled by the operators. But they had offered that to him, too. He got the fashionable 18½?-an-hour pay rise. The mine owners had been willing to go a cent higher. He had gotten $100 vacation pay. The operators had offered him the same figure...
...shut. Soldiers swarmed out of the guardhouse. The comandante himself popped to his office window, screamed as though cut to the heart, bustled into the courtyard. "Swine, filth," he yelled at the P.W.s. "seducers, whoremongers, robbers! ... I who have been so noble,, so kind, so Christian, so hundred per cent generous with you filthy bastards. . . . And this is my reward. . . . How many got away...