Word: paid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suppose," he said, "this ought to be an occasion of some solemnity, but I can't feel it so. No one so far has paid any attention to Judge Davis, who is lamentably lame in one regard." He turned to the fourth ancient, Judge J. Warren Davis, 71, not retiring. "I refer to his robe, which for years has been the despair and humiliation of every one connected with this Court. It is a sad commentary on the administration of justice, and the concern over it has reached way down to his native State of North Carolina. Before...
...Washington. When it broke all house records, he decided to invest a little money in reconditioning. With a musical score and a few elementary sound effects, the picture opened in Boston three weeks ago. By last week, it was apparent even to Mr. Jensen that, whatever he had paid for it, his antique was one of the box-office hits...
...advance him $1,000 which would be considered a cash award in case the art centre was not built. To make sure that some designs would be successful, Architects Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, William Lescaze, Richard Neutra, and the Detroit firm of Lyndon & Smith were invited, paid $400 for submitting their designs...
...idea: to control every last sale of aluminum in the U. S. Its success, claimed the prosecutor, is indicated by the fact that a $100 share in the company in 1890 has by now yielded a par value of $8,760, that some $100,000,000 has been paid in cash dividends in the past 48 years, that Alcoa admittedly controls 100% of the virgin aluminum production in the U. S., that everyone in the trade considers Alcoa a monopoly. In short, said Walter Rice: "If there is in this whole United States a single industry in which there...
Other items of Depression II: ¶. In October 1936, General Electric Co. instituted its Cost of Living Adjustment Plan, paid employes making $4,000 and less a bonus based on the Department of Labor's cost-of-living index. Still on this basis, G.E. last week cut its bonus from 5% to 3%, its common stock dividend from...