High per cents.

"Father has sold at two dollars and twenty-five cents a bushel," replied Dorn.

He was chief clerk in the Old Annuities and Three Per Cents, 1788-1793.

"Couldcould you let me have the loan of seventy-five cents?"

"How much money have you got?" "Seventy-five cents.

The stock had been selling at three cents a share, and, of course, after the oil was discovered he said it would go right up to ten dollars.

But he was real nice about ithe said anybody who had been living there in the house could share his good fortune with him, come in on the ground floor, and have it just the same for three cents.

"How on earth did old Doc manage to get hold of them?" "It sold for only ten cents a share!" replied Miss Wiggin.

"It would cost you only fifty cents.

"It's a pity we didn't buy it all in at ten cents a share.

We own or control at least four million shares, for which we paid ten to fifteen cents, while we had sold our original holdings for one dollar sixty to one dollar ninety-five a share.

We underwrite the stock of Lallapaloosa at fifty cents a share, thus supplying the new corporation with the funds with which to purchase the properties of the old.

They can infer what they like from the fact that Horse's Neck has been selling for ten cents a share for the last three years.

The minority were nothing but a lot of piking gamblers, anyway, who bought or sold for a rise or fall of a few cents.

"Now these gentlemen have underwritten the stock in the new Lallapaloosa Company at fifty cents upon the dollar, and if this nefarious deal is permitted to go through they will thus acquire a property worth ten millions for five hundred thousand dollars, of which they will use only one hundred and twenty-five thousand in payment of old indebtedness.

Shortly after that circular was issued the stock sold in the open market at one dollar and ninety cents a share.

In two years it sank to ten cents a share.

Price 40 cents.

Price, 50 cents.

A copy of this pamphlet will be sent postpaid to any address by the publishers of this book on receipt of ten cents.

The average cost of the menus is fifty cents per person.

The combined price received by the planter of (let us say) 14.4 cents for 1 pound of lint plus 2 pounds of seed should correspond roughly to the marginal joint costs of production.

But the factor of cost has no influence at all in determining that this combined price is made up of a price of 12 cents per pound for lint, and only 1.2 cents per pound (or $24 per ton) for cotton-seed.

But the factor of cost has no influence at all in determining that this combined price is made up of a price of 12 cents per pound for lint, and only 1.2 cents per pound (or $24 per ton) for cotton-seed.

The people who cross the Place de la Bourse draw aside with a sort of religious terror from the necropolis where sleep the three per cents and the shares of the Crédit Foncier; and if the churches were not closed, more than one charitable soul would perhaps burn a candle to lay the unquiet spirits of these despairing jobbers.