Word: paid
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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
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...