Word: paid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lasser's call was opportune. When the South opposed the Wages-&-Hours bill without pay differentials, the Administration argued that the South would never get anywhere unless it paid its labor better. Now was the Administration's moment to make good on that view. With President Roosevelt's approval, and to Mr. Lasser's delight, Mr. Hopkins announced wage boosts for WPA workers in 13 Southern States. Minimum pay went up from $21 a month for unskilled labor in rural districts to $26. In four states- North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma-all classes of workers were...
...over in 124 seconds by the clock.* Most of the 70,000 spectators, some of whom paid as much as $125 for a seat, were as bewildered as the challenger. Men who were lighting their pipes missed the whole thing. By the time those in the rear rows had jumped onto their chairs to see over the heads of those who had jumped onto their chairs in front, the match looked like a crap game. In the ring everyone seemed to be crouched on the canvas. Referee Arthur Donovan was counting-three, four, five-over the dazed challenger...
Experts creamily agreed last week that the sale was going quite well. Purchases after two days totted up to $242,000. Jacques Seligmann of Paris & Manhattan paid $19,000 for Bouchardon's slim, adolescent statue of Cupid, which the elder Schiff acquired...
...made the baseball game an incidental of the evening's entertainment. He had invited famed Olympic Sprinter Jesse Owens to do his stuff before the game, had hired two fife & drum corps and a couple of brass bands. At 9:45 when the grandstand customers who had paid $1.10 (and the 3,000 bleacherites who had paid 55?) felt that they had just about received their money's worth, the umpire croaked "Play ball." The visiting team was the Cincinnati Reds, MacPhail's old boys, most of whom he himself had rounded up from the minor leagues...
...projects, the one most lavishly encouraged by private enterprise is the Federal Theatre Radio Division. For none of its 44 series has the F.T.R.D. ever paid the radio broadcasting systems any time charges. Obligated to fill unsold air time with entertainment and edification, networks and radio stations have handed F.T.R.D. rich slices of the ether. Free time contributed to the project in two years is valued at more than $3,000,000, almost ten times the project's actual cost. And the project has succeeded in returning about half its actors to professional stage, screen or radio jobs...