Word: fee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first-class concert outfit. She lined up London and the Continent two summers ago: such organizations as the University of Lausanne, the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs agreed to obtain halls, print programs. The girls were to pay their own way, sing without fee. Twenty-four singers made the trip last summer, impressed European critics with their "absolutely sure musicality," their "entirely unusual and impressive discipline...
From 1934 until last week, a discontented wife or husband could get unhitched within three days in the resort town of Cuernavaca, 47 miles south of Mexico City in the state of Morelos. All the restless spouse had to do was sign a few papers, pay a registration fee ($100), and give public notice. That could be done by placing a three-line ad in a local newspaper or pinning up a curt announcement on the courthouse bulletin board...
Eaton's role as an angel, said Reporter . Jim Ratliff, who led the employees' committee, will "end in a clean break as soon as we pay him off." Eaton, a political enemy of Senator Bob Taft, will be paid a fee (estimated at $250,000) for his financing help, may get it in stock if the employees so decide. Said Ratliff, "The paper's in our hands. Eaton will not control us now or then...
...after a seven-week trial, a Kansas City federal jury awarded Fulton treble damages of $1,250,000. Fox and the others appealed. Last month the U.S. Supreme Court refused a review; meanwhile, the sum had grown, with interest, to $1,333,605. (Spanos' share as a fee: $220,000.) Last week Spanos had eight similar suits pending against Fox, its subsidiary National Theatres Corp., and other companies charging them with the same kind of activities against six other independent theater owners...
...They prepared little copy or art work. Lasker, who displayed a hypnotic, golden-tongued salesmanship from the start, soon changed all that. He laid out ad campaigns with newsy headlines and drawings, insisted on a 15% commission on the price of the ads. Thus he helped establish the fee system now standard for the industry. At 24, he was earning $1,000 a week, already owned 25% of the firm...