Word: percents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There isn't ten percent of the interest in radio that there was last year," he said. "It's a highly complicated machine in the hands of people who know nothing about...
Last week Under Secretary of the Treasury Winston announced the first loan within six months, an offering of $350,000,000, nine months three and one-half percent Treasury Certificates of indebtedness dated and bearing interest from Sept. 15, 1926, maturing June...
Signor Lucetti, jailed, said to the police: "Don't ask me so many questions at once. I am tired. Wait a bit. Give me a glass of water and a cigaret and I will answer all your questions." One hundred percent white Nordics who had supposed that Latins are perpetually emotional were puzzled...
With emphasis, Mr. Ellsworth next day denied the Herald-Tribune's article. "I don't care what Nobile writes," he said. Then he put an end to all the press stories about his reputed differences with Nobile: "I want to give Roald Amundsen 100 percent credit for the whole flight. It was his idea. He organized it and put it through. . . . I give credit to General Nobile for building the airship and for captaining it across the Polar...
...This high ratio is accounted for by the fact that a barber exerts the power of life and death over his patients. Gratitude for present escape and trepidation for the future combine to stimulate the gift. Waiters must be content with less. Fifteen percent on checks under two dollars, ten percent over that. On all checks between seven and eleven dollars a dollar is the correct amount...