Word: paid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inspectors seized her new purse and obliged Mrs. Rumsey to pay duty on that, too. The Rumsey jewelry was proved to have been purchased in this country, and was returned, though Mrs. Rumsey had to pay for having had some stones reset in Paris. For the finery she paid $7,600, bringing her complete bill to $8,783. Said Mrs. Rumsey easily: "I thought I had declared all ... my maid packed ... I neglected to check...
...Michigan. Last week the U. S. gathered in Detroit and along its rum- reeking river some 400 Dry agents. In the face of this new Prohibition drive Archibald Eugster, 21, with three companions, loaded 35 cases of Canadian liquor for which they paid $1,258, into their speed boat and started across. At the mouth of the River Rouge a Customs boat gave chase. Ten cases were jettisoned without widening the gap between the two boats. The rum-runners beached their craft, took to their heels. Customs Inspector Jonah Cox landed, stood guard over the liquor while his comrade went...
Most facile of writers is debonair Paul Reboux, editor, dramatic critic, parodist and bon vivant, author of The Little Papa-coda, Romulus Cuckoo, Colin, or the Tropical Voluptuaries. Among his other works, nimble Critic Reboux has paid homage to France's national sport and greatest glory, Gastronomy, by publishing a cook book, Plats Nouveaux...
...farm families surveyed last year paid out an average of $104.94 each for doctors, nurses, hospital care, medicines, quackeries. With an average of 4.64 persons per family, the individual outlay was $22.62. New York City, as a community, last year spent 150 millions caring for the sick -on doctors, nurses, hospitals, clinics, drugs, quackeries. That was a per capita cost of $25. The people also lost an estimated 75 millions by absence from work on account of illness. Some 2,400,000 visited the 675 municipal and private clinics...
...judges in the Chicago district decided (2 t01) that the cracking patents were not overlapping, that the pool and its methods of operation represented an abuse of patent monopoly privileges, that the pool would have to dissolve. The court also held that in fixing the royalties which a licensee paid, the pool was essentially price-fixing and that in refusing to license certain independents the pool was acting in restraint of trade...