Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then freeze butter prices, which jumped upward and tried to drag milk prices along. But for the distributors, the Government provided subsidies of $1 million a month -temporary hush money until OPA and the Agriculture Department could decide on the least evil of three: 1) raise milk a cent a quart; 2) lower the average price to farmers; 3) continue paying subsidies...
...meantime, the undeniable injustice of the taxes which discriminate to keep millions from voting goes on serving as fuel for the already overheated elements of discontent and Axis propaganda fire. Bilbo, Senator from Mississippi, where less than ten per cent of the citizens vote, was elected on a platform dedicated to ". . . raising more hell than Huey Long." He is keeping his word--and the fire he is raising has all America in a hot spot. "The Man," as the Senator fondly refers to himself, typifies the pro-poll tax bloc. Saturday, their filibuster technique led them into hiding from...
...Figures are in Chinese dollars whose purchasing power is about equal to three-quarters of a U.S. cent...
...Coins ranging from a hundred reis (smallest unit recently made, worth half a U.S. cent) to five milreis (25?) come in 25 different sizes. At times some have been worth more as metal than as money; always they have caused innumerable difficulties with such things as pay telephones, slot machines...
Commenting that the most significant thing about the election was that its conclusion has freed Congress for its regular work, Arthur M. Schlesinger of the History Department said that the Republicans elected were 100 per cent behind...