Word: paid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tent wherever he stopped failed to make money. Pyle gave the runners $1.50 a day for food, put cots for them in empty stores. In Chicago there was no cash on hand. When it seemed sure that everything was over, one F. F. Gunn, Chicago sportsman, paid off the debts, took charge of the race. His son Harry was in the race and Gunn is said to have bet $75,000 that Harry would finish. He hired a sleeping bus and two trainers for Harry and followed the boy in his Pierce Arrow roadster. To Pyle was left...
That the world may see streaks of light through the long hours of darkness, Orange, N. J., women hired themselves to the U. S. Radium Corporation. Daily they took up watch dials and painted the blind numerals with a magic dye which made them glow at night. The company paid a high price for the paint. When a few drops were left in the glass after the brushes were twirled and pointed, supervisors complained. The girls were taught to point and clean the brushes with their lips. Thirteen died. Last week the U. S. Radium Corporation was defendant...
...pentad of 1923-27, U. S. investors paid $34,806,783,000 for 36,965 different issues of bonds and stocks. Of these 34,995 issues were bonds sold...
...that its holders would use "Gem," "Ever-Ready" and "Star" blades. American Safety Razor was incorporated in Virginia in 1919. William Crapo Durant is one of its directors. It makes 100,000,000 blades a year. Only Gillette Safety Razor Co. exceeds it in output. When American paid the makers of "Gem" $4,000,000 for their business, $3,600,000 was for "goodwill." American also bought "Ever-Ready" goodwill for $4,560,000, and the "Star" trademark for $250,000. The goodwill meant money spent advertising those razors and blades. In six years after buying these brands American Safety...
...apparently irrelevant fact stood like a prognosticating index finger. A month ago the Pennsylvania withdrew its long support from Leonor Fresnel Loree's fifth eastern railroad system and paid him 63 million dollars to drop the matter (TIME, May 7). For getting Mr. Loree out of the railroads' way, the Pennsylvania was to get passage along the southern shore of Lake Erie to Chicago...