Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then his troubles began. The forwarding agent told him that to secure payment, he must submit six copies of his bill to a bank. Three times he went to the bank, waited in long queues, while orders piled up at his one-man workshop...
...notified him that the two tables of intricate design were stalled there. Unless Covre forwarded a "certificate of origin" they could not be shipped. To get the certificate, he had to make several trips to his local chamber of commerce. The chamber needed two more copies of the original bill, which also had to be registered at the registration office and visaed by the price control office...
...ugliest comments were spoken in ripe, raucous Brooklynese. Even some owners in the low-paying Negro leagues protested against "raiding" their men. There had been Negroes in big-league ball before, but they had been careful to identify themselves as Indians or "Cubans." The late Minor League President Bill Bramham cried: "Father Divine will have to look to his laurels, for we can expect Rickey Temple to be in the course of construction in Harlem soon." Rickey, ignoring the uproar, treated Jackie "white," giving him a year's seasoning in the minors. The four other Negroes who followed Robinson...
Raised Brows. Under the contract Jones would drill 100 wells. He will furnish the machinery and workers, and foot the bill for current operations. The Mexican Government will reimburse Jones in Mexican Government bonds for all expenses plus 10%. To enable Jones to resell the bonds in the U.S. market, they will be convertible into oil at a preferential price...
Carlow will have to foot the bill only for common medicines, even especially expensive medicines will be supplied without charge...