Word: paid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mahout in the elephant stables of the Maharaja of Mysore, Sabu was picked by Director Robert Flaherty to play the lead in Elephant Boy two years ago. Now 15 and one of the half-dozen highest paid child stars in cinema, he goes to a boarding school at Beaconsfield, where he plays halfback on the second Rugby team, keeps a flat in London, where he lives with his brother, a tutor and three servants, drives himself about in a miniature car, often visits the London zoo, where he makes friends with the elephants and stables his mongoose, Rikki...
...Democratic New York City. But in spite of "oxygen" for Post circulation (266,151 for the six months ending March 31, 1938) provided by guessing contests, cheap sets of Dickens and reproductions of Modern Masters, the Post has not done too well. With 3,251,223 lines of paid advertising in the six months ending last June, the Post is well behind all its after noon competitors, which rank in order: Sun, World-Telegram, Journal & American. Last week, Dave Stern applied a new kind of oxygen...
...Conrad, in which Author Alan Villiers used to sail all over the world-and the Coast Guard patrol boat Faunce. Later, the freighter Edgemoor, now being reconditioned, will be added to the school equipment. Training courses as planned will require three months, during which the enrolled seamen will be paid $36 a month. First month will stress the rudiments of sailing ("even a steward should be able to throw a bowline") ; second month deck men, stewards and engine men will receive instruction in their special fields; third month will be a training cruise. Graduates are not guaranteed jobs...
...four economic groups (10% with incomes over $4,000, 30% $2,000 to $4,000, 40% $1,000 to $2,000 and 20% below $1,000). Because mailed ballots are unreliable, Dr. Link (like FORTUNE and Mr. Gallup) does all his work by interview. He sends paid, trained investigators (usually psychologists or psychology students) to people's homes...
...formed in September of that year. WOR and WGN organized on a 50-50 basis, agreed to seek advertisers who wanted to use both stations, not to interfere with each other's local programs. As a network, MBS was to have no corporate profit. Officers were to be paid only by the station for which they worked...