Word: paid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried to get ahead on the waiting lists by applying for cars in blocs of 100 through KdF leaders. All who signed have to begin at once paying installments of five marks ($2) per week toward a car which is to cost about $400, and no interest will be paid on the weekly deposits. If 1,000,000 of Germany's workers subscribe, $104,000,000 will pour in to help build the KdF factory. Meanwhile, batches of apprentices, supplied with free board & lodging, are in training for the "high honor" of working in the new factory...
...State of Jalisco had just been confiscated from Dora and Oscar Newton, U. S. citizens. In point of plain fact, Mexico had told Mr. Hull to go jump in the Rio Grande; that U. S. citizens who own little as well as big properties in Mexico will get paid for their seizure when, as and if the Mexican Government feels like it. All he proposed was that the two Governments appoint representatives to fix the value of the claims, and decide on a manner of payment in accordance with "Mexican...
...Detroit Tigers paid Connie Mack $100,000 for Mickey Cochrane, baseball's best catcher. In 1935, after he had led the Tigers to two successive American League pennants and the first world championship in its history, Catcher-Manager Mickey Cochrane became the hero of Detroit. In 1936, Manager Cochrane had a nervous breakdown, was away from the bench for six weeks. Last summer a pitched ball fractured his skull, ended his playing career. Last week, Mickey Cochrane, 35, reputedly the highest-salaried ($45,000 a year) manager in the game, was fired...
...McClintic, 72, engineer, whose far-flung steel-fabricating company (McClintic-Marshall Corp.) built the Panama Canal locks; from an embolism; in Pittsburgh, Pa. Founded at the turn of the century when the Mellons put up a $150,000 stake for McClintic and his partner, Charles Donnell Marshall, McClintic-Marshall paid more than $8,000,000 in dividends up to 1931, when it became a part of Bethlehem Steel Corp...
...years ago, when Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and 114 other highly paid opera stars and concert artists formed the American Guild of Musical Artists and called it a labor union, humbler musicians had to laugh. But a year later, Baritone Tibbett's dress-collar union acquired an A. F. of L. charter and set about organizing opera from top to bottom, from $1s-a-week spear-carriers to prima donnas. Soon A. G. M. A. had negotiated agreements with Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl, the itinerant San Carlo Opera, the New York Hippodrome Opera, and most of the smaller...