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1  "Here," he said, holding out the fourteen cents.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
2  Here they searched Jurgis, leaving him only his money, which consisted of fifteen cents.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
3  He paid one of his fifteen cents for a postal card, and his companion wrote a note to the family, telling them where he was and when he would be tried.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
4  It had cost fifty cents; but Elzbieta had a feeling that money spent for such things was not to be counted too closely, it would come back in hidden ways.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
5  The best paid men, the "splitters," made fifty cents an hour, which would be five or six dollars a day in the rush seasons, and one or two in the dullest.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
6  All of their sausage came out of the same bowl, but when they came to wrap it they would stamp some of it "special," and for this they would charge two cents more a pound.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
7  First there were the "splitters," the most expert workmen in the plant, who earned as high as fifty cents an hour, and did not a thing all day except chop hogs down the middle.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
8  There are learned people who can tell you out of the statistics that beef-boners make forty cents an hour, but, perhaps, these people have never looked into a beef-boner's hands.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
9  It must always be done at night, so that Jurgis could go along; and even if it were only a pepper cruet, or half a dozen glasses for ten cents, that was enough for an expedition.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
10  Some would ride in the cars, if the cars were running; but when you are making only five cents an hour, as was little Stanislovas, you do not like to spend that much to ride two miles.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
11  Once or twice there had been rumors that one of the big houses was going to cut its unskilled men to fifteen cents an hour, and Jurgis knew that if this was done, his turn would come soon.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
12  As there was no one from whom he could borrow there, and he dared not beg for fear of being arrested, it was arranged that every day he should meet one of the children and be given fifteen cents of their earnings, upon which he could keep going.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
13  So whenever he wished to ride, he had to pay ten cents each way, or over ten per cent of his income to this power, which had gotten its franchises long ago by buying up the city council, in the face of popular clamor amounting almost to a rebellion.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
14  This was child's play for him, and he got a dollar and seventy-five cents a day for it; on Saturday he paid Aniele the seventy-five cents a week he owed her for the use of her garret, and also redeemed his overcoat, which Elzbieta had put in pawn when he was in jail.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
15  It was nearly as bad as the latter, they found in the end, for the plumber charged them seventy-five cents an hour, and seventy-five cents for another man who had stood and watched him, and included all the time the two had been going and coming, and also a charge for all sorts of material and extras.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
16  Then Jurgis would try to hammer, and hit his fingers because the hammer was too small, and get mad because Ona had refused to let him pay fifteen cents more and get a bigger hammer; and Ona would be invited to try it herself, and hurt her thumb, and cry out, which necessitated the thumb's being kissed by Jurgis.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
17  All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents an hour; and then his product would be reckoned up by the census taker, and jubilant captains of industry would boast of it in their banquet halls, telling how our workers are nearly twice as efficient as those of any other country.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
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