Word: 30c
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tips to waiters not to exceed 60c per day; to bell boys and maids not over 30c. Laundry not to exceed $1.40 per week; pressing not over $1.25. If there is no bath in the room rented by the Government traveling man, he must not spend more than 50c per day for such an item. A little pamphlet is being printed to inform the unwary traveler exactly what to do. Therein he is told how late he may arrive at a place for breakfast in order to have it paid for by the Government. The new rules will go into...
...stupid, perspiring women who just want to know "how much this is"; clerks who indicate, by a sad shake of the head, that the English language is a closed book to them. Other customers, less bloody-minded, merely dream of saying to the cashier when they pay for a 30c purchase, "Oh, by the way, how much is this store worth?" . . . "About $16,000,000 a year." . . . "Here's my check. Wrap the place up. Ill take it home with me." Just this, with a little more formality, is what Gimbel Bros, (of New York, Philadelphia and Milwaukee...
...insisted that she be not allowed in the guests' rooms. She was offered a job in the kitchen. "They were pleasant about it," she said. From Pittsburgh she went to Manhattan, arrived with only 43c. The Salvation Army gave her food and a night's lodging for 30c, and the United Charities found her a job in the Contagious Hospital. "New York treated me better than any other city," she declared...
Increase of 30c to 42c a bushel on wheat (TIME...
...microphone has no terrors for him. Broad casting under the auspices of the Aeronautics Department of New York Uni versity, he gave last week as chatty and graphic a talk as the wireless has ever carried to listening thousands. "I predict air transportation at a cost of less than 30c a ton mile. I predict a Nation-wide connecting-up of all important commercial and industrial cen tres with air mail operating at night between such centres as are approximately 1,000 miles anp.rt...