Word: paid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undeterred, he norrowed ten dollars from a friend and left early the next morning. In Minea, New York, on Wednesday, he was arrested by railroad police. Before a justice of the peace be paid a two dollar fine and promised that he would steal no more rides...
...connection with this second trend, one of these closed schools clearly paid more attention than most to the kind of private instruction for troubled students which the University has recently undertaken officially. Such "legitimate" tutoring has been quite rightly taken over by the University, but consequently there is no room left for outside agencies. The sudden demise of the second cram parlor, which rather specialized in the spreading of canned information, shows that the less successful schools are already falling by the wayside. This may well be an indication that the barometer is falling around the more notorious rivals...
...Since 1925 it has had a total net profit of $4,277,000. From this it has paid $467,500 to the municipality to finance WPA projects and other city enterprises. In addition to $2,200,000 for bond retirement it has spent $1,398,200 on plant expansion, written off $100,000 in old equipment, laid away $111,800 for working capital...
...Before figuring its net it has duly paid the city $1,181,000 in lieu of taxes...
...Colorado Springs' thriving water department (also city-operated) it has paid $610,000 for use of water gathered from the sides of Pikes Peak, which turns the wheels of the hydro plants on the way down to the settling basins...