Word: fees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...34th floor of Manhattan's General Electric Building, surrounded by his henchmen. In filed the representatives of Victor and Columbia. For five hours they struggled over the exact contract language. Finally, Caesar handed them a pen and the woe-to-the-vanquished terms he had given Decca: a fee on every record, ranging from ¼? to 5?. the money to be paid into a special Musician's Union fund...
...tale, Vasilisa the All-Wise walks up to the little hut that stands on hen's legs and says : "Little hut, little hut, turn with your face to me and your back to the sea." And the voice of Baba Yaga, the witch, answers from within the hut: "Fee fo fum, I smell Russian blood. For today the Russian spirit is marching through the world, and it throws itself on your breast and it slaps you in the face...
...anyone who would work in the forests. In eastern cities and suburbs, where householders use fireplaces for supplementary heat, wood was scarce and expensive. And householders whose trees were blown down in last month's hurricane were the victims of a new racket: for a high hourly fee, the snooty racketeers would deign to cut up the trees blocking the driveways. Then, for a bargain price, the victim was allowed to buy back his own wood-green and noninflammable until next winter...
...that this indicates a rift between His Honor and local organized medicine. The societies accept the insurance idea in principle. They object to: 1) the idea of a closed panel; 2) letting in subscribers earning more than $2,500 (which would put many doctors almost entirely on a fixed-fee basis). The Mayor said he was "certain that the completed plans will meet universal approval...
...copies of his song. He next hears from an apparently different concern (the same shark using a different address), expressing great interest in his published song and suggesting that all it needs is a recording, by an unfamiliar but impressively named orchestra. This can be done for a small fee...