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Word: paid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week newspapers paid a debt to crime. It is one of their greatest news assets but seldom do editors have a chance to say nice things about men who have committed crimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Factory | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

Over three quarters of a million dollars has been subscribed towards the building of the new Chapel. Nearly $400,000 of this sum has already been paid to the treasurer of theuniversity. A committee of university alumni will have charge of collecting the unpaid subscriptions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Memorial Chapel to Rise in Honor of Harvard's War Heroes | 2/28/1928 | See Source »

...Whereas over three quarters of a million dollars has already been subscribed for this purpose; and nearly $400,000 paid to the treasury of the University; it is hereby...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Memorial Chapel to Rise in Honor of Harvard's War Heroes | 2/28/1928 | See Source »

...decades the road had paid $10 a share dividends; the comfort of many a New England family depended on its earnings; it was "New England Investors' Bible," "as safe as Government bonds." J. P. Morgan & Co. controlled the road, the late Charles Sanger Mellen was its president. Ambitious to control all of New England's transportation, the N. Y. N. H. & H. bought trolley, steamship and other connecting lines at inflated values. Financial collapse of the N. Y. N. H. & H. followed. President Mellen was ejected. Later Edward Jones Pearson, able railroad operator, came in as president, while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: $1 from N. Y. N. H. & H. | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

Everyone reads periodicals and everyone reflects that income from subscriptions and advertisements must be profitable. The nickel paid for a copy of the Saturday Evening Post does not pay for the cost of paper alone. But the $8,000 that the magazine charges for a full-page advertisement in black and the $11,500 for four-color pages yield profits which financiers are beginning to exploit. Each reader may be a prospect for the sale of such securities, just as almost every user of electricity in the U. S. has been offered investments in his "home" public utility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Periodicals | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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