noon
`` When do we get it ? Show us some money ! '' howls the kickers . `` I have been requested to announce , '' goes on Mr. Pepper , `` that payments from this office will be resumed promptly at noon -- on the first day of next month . '' Does that satisfy 'em ? Not so you 'd notice it . A bigger squawk than ever goes up , and the jam around Mr. Pepper begins to look like rush hour at the Hudson Terminal .