Word: overpaid
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...greatest expenses was the name performers they hired to stud their productions. When they had to fill up a cast they could usually find bit players who were eager to work for little or nothing, just to participate in their plays. But they usually overpaid their stars, and to have the glory of a top name on their program they would disregard their financial difficulties. Once the star was there, however, they resented his drawing the lion's share of the gate receipts...
...board, his eye on production. He likes to pad around the huge war-surplus plant on the edge of Lambert-St. Louis field, uses a public-address system to tell his 6,500 employees about new orders as soon as they come in. Lest they think that he is overpaid, he reminded them in his last annual report that his own salary (after taxes) is only "equal to the wages ... of ten unskilled laborers...
There was enormous wastage: because Congress had provided no sound accounting system to check on payments, the U.S. overpaid to the extent of an estimated half a billion on terminated war contracts. There was fraud and there were mistakes; Comptroller General Lindsay Warren found glaring errors in one out of every seven of the settlements he examined -"and never an error in favor of the Government." At the time, everyone thought that haste, even though it meant waste, was better than delay which might have cost the nation a bigger sum in lost civilian production, long lines of unemployed...
...overpayments on the Contract Settlement Act of 1944, which permitted Government agencies to settle contracts in full before final auditing by Warren's office. He had long advocated part payments, up to 75%, before final auditing. As it was, Warren had recovered $474,717 in "voluntary" rebates from overpaid contractors. More might have been recovered, he said, if Government contract agencies had rot "devoted their efforts to defending the excessive settlements." Last week, as Warren turned his evidence over to the Department of Justice for prosecution, Congress ordered an investigation...
...average 'Cliffe dues-payer yielded $7.75 according to official calculations, but one girl reached the $16.75 mark. Only six students overpaid while another half dozen underpaid with Student Gov coming out on the better side of the transaction...