This one na- tion, which owns six
per cent of the earth and is five
per cent of the human race, has SEVENTY
per cent of the telephones.
You could draw my pension, and repay yourselves at the rate, say, of L500 a year, taking your five
per cent interest as well."
"What will sixty-five
per cent of the gate receipts be?" Rivera demanded.
"A capital profit, -- four hundred
per cent., Planchet."
If I could get twenty or thirty pounds to begin with, I could pay five
per cent for it, and then I could gradually make a little capital of my own, and do without a loan."
But the twenty-five
per cent. plan did not work well at all.
'and the Directors have every reason to believe that ten
per cent., or more, will be ultimately realised to the shareholders by the hotel.'
Of course we can't afford to take these structures down under a bonus of five hundred
per cent upon the prime cost of our lot and plaster.
"The commission is usually one and a half; will you have two -- three -- five
per cent, or even more?
The assistant is even civil and attends to him at once, to the great indignation of the lady in the next box, who, however, sarcastically observes that she don't mind being kept waiting "if it is a regular customer." Why, from the pleasant and businesslike manner in which the transaction is carried out, it might be a large purchase in the three
per cents. Yet what a piece of work a man makes of his first "pop." A boy popping his first question is confidence itself compared with him.
A five-per cent safe investment had no attraction for him; but to risk millions in sharp, harsh skirmish, standing to lose everything or to win fifty or a hundred
per cent, was the savor of life to him.
"Three hundred, say at six
per cent.--that'd be six cents on the dollar, sixty cents on ten dollars, six dollars on the hundred, on three hundred eighteen dollars.
