Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...households, with a maximum allowance of three pounds a person a month. This, applied to every individual, would cut our year's consumption in two. There is no difficulty in getting along in the home on the amount the Food Administration specifies. Thousands do regularly with much less per capita. New York...
...most profitable way of employing the coupon is undoubtedly to use it for the purchase of war savings stamps, which bear 4 per cent, interest compounded quarterly, and Liberty dividends so invested offer the best, most direct and most immediate aid to Uncle Sam, who pays them. --New York...
...applicants have been ordered to the 77th Division at Yaphank and will report to the Commanding General on January 5, 1918. They will be required to pay their own travelling expenses to the camp, but they will be reimbursed later at the rate of three and one-half cents per mile. Candidates for commissions are at liberty to buy their own uniforms in advance, but the War Department will not allow them any money for this purpose...
...consider that before we entered the war not more than one in a dozen of the buyers of first Liberty bonds had over been the owner of a bond, and a considerable number of those who own "3 1-2 per cents., U. S. Gov., 1947," had never set eyes on a bond of any description...
...back just one week. Salaams before the door of University 4 are now in order by each of the forty-five men who will make up the University quota at Yaphank or some mysterious Federal camp. If unexpected pleasures are the sweetest, the announcement this morning contains one hundred per cent. saccharine matter. But out with those books. The days are more than nigh...