Word: paid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pickard seized his chance to join the expanding Columbia Broadcasting System as vice president. Friction within the Radio Commission and uncertainty of its continuance as an administrative body have depreciated the value of his old job, which paid him $10,000 per annum...
General Dalton, second-highest-paid executive official,* will join a private shipping enterprise. Since 1926 he has directed the Government's fleet of 250 vessels. He rose from an Army private to Assistant Quarter-Master-General in charge of transportation. A year ago the Dalton brow darkened unhappily when a Fleet Corporation reorganization clipped his authority. Now the prospect of the sale of the Government's ships, with the consequent evaporation of his good job, was doubtless what tempted him to desert the Coolidge barkentine...
...week for 100 weeks, at the end of which period they receive a diamond worth $175. If they pay $2 a week for 100 weeks they get two diamonds, worth $350. The company reserves the right to make a cash settlement at any time after eleven installments have been paid, this settlement to consist of a refund with the generous interest of 37-3%. This repayment-with-interest appears to have overshadowed the jewelry portion of the business. Hundreds of dollar-a-week investors have had their partial payments refunded at interest...
...Grotesque and Arabesque" printed in 1840. This book contains the author's greeting to the person to whom the book was presented. It is believed to be the only volume of his writings that Poe ever presented to anyone, and would probably bring one of the highest prices ever paid for a book if put up for public sale...
Round Twelve. Rockefeller Jr. resumed his tactics of the tenth round. This time his feint was an observance of the amenities: He paid his respects in Cairo to King Fuad. At the same time his Manhattan office through Thomas M. Debe voise, collector of pro-Rockefeller proxies, announced,. "We now feel confident of having enough proxies. We shall continue bending our energies to obtain many more stockholders for our side, for we are anxious to lead in the number of voters as well as in the volume of share-holders...