Word: cent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tough as the jaws of a rock breaker is steel containing manganese. Great U. S. steel companies search the world over for manganese ore, use some 675,000 tons of it per year. Free-listed in the tariff acts of 1909 and 1913, manganese ore was taxed 1 cent per lb. by the 1922 law to protect domestic production in 30 states...
...wrote pamphlets and books on finance and history. One such opus, well-worded, eclectic, seditious, got him appointed "out of harm's way" as diplomat-at-large to the Court of Berlin where he nearly succeeded in embroiling Germany and France, at a time when there was "not a cent in the French treasury." France's poverty, he found, was due to the predatory habits of nobility and clergy. Against them he, a people's deputy in Paris, attempted to unite King and People. Of the despised People's deputies he made a National Assembly and, when the Revolution...
...shrinkage since the spring estimates. Reason: Hot winds, drought, severe insect damage. Bad weather conditions in Canada and improved world demand brightened the outlook. The Chicago wheat pit reflected these conditions. Prices, on the rise for the last month, went higher. July deliveries touched $1.29 per bushel, a 35 cent advance since the disastrous drop of May. Oldtime traders looked for even better prices, gossiped about $2 wheat...
...anything but a sweet humor. William Marion Jardine, Coolidge Secretary of Agriculture, now a lobbyist for the U. S. Beet Sugar Association, opened the argument: "The trouble about Sugar is there is too damned much of it being produced. . . . Give us a duty that will bring six-cent sugar . . . and we'll show you how to produce more sugar...
...number of their years since graduation in multiples of five that will be most in evidence. The numerals of 1904 will no doubt be particularly noticeable for twenty-five years out makes the recognition of wives and children a tradition, and secures something very like a hundred per cent attendance on the part of members of the class. Some of these men are back for the first time and have to catch up with a great deal of past history. Their classmates have changed and more even than they the College has changed. But in these almost frenzied affairs there...