Word: overpaid
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...Dough. In Freeport, ILL., Grocer Leo Fagan shut up shop, trustingly left some bread outside for possible customers, returned to find that he had been overpaid 20 cents...
Larry MacPhail, who is also a worrier, found it hard to take. Finally, as everyone felt sure he would, he emerged from his lowering cloud of silence and publicly castigated the Yankees. Along with some dark threats about overpaid players, he charged: "It is one thing to be beaten and quite another to be outhustled. . . . We must have more life, more pepper...
...agitating for a reform of the income tax, wants all earned incomes over ?20,000 to be taxexempt. Says he (after having been enormously overpaid for Pygmalion) : "I lately received a further windfall of ?29,000 on account of my film rights. The financial result was that I had to pay ?50,000 to the Chancellor of the Exchequer within two years. And the result of that catastrophe is that I am now using my copyrights not to have my plays filmed and thereby give employment and enjoyment to my fellow citizens, but to forbid and suppress them in order...
Boom. In Whiting, Ind., Mrs. Elizabeth Koby, a $42-a-week Standard Oil employe, received her two-week pay envelope, found she had been overpaid...
...financial risk. Item: he is now in the courts defying the Navy to renegotiate him out of $3,250,000 of 1942 "excess profits" (this is the first fullblown test yet of the renegotiation law). Item: he has also gone to court to contest a Treasury ruling that he overpaid...