Word: paid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nice" went. The two boys explained that they had heard the words and music either in a New York or Philadelphia night club where a colored band was playing. . . . We made a recording of the words and music to that point in a Broadway automaton shop for which we paid 25?. Nothing further was done about the song until last November when the Andrews Sisters, whom I manage . . . were in Philadelphia playing a theatre engagement. . . . The Andrews, Kent, Brandow, Vic Shoen (their arranger) and myself fooled around with the song. In "foo to Nagasaki," Pattie rolled the words to sound...
...after several changes of plan, it has cost $544,000. Per cubic foot it cost 43½?, compared to 20? per cubic foot for the nearby Federal Building. Of 1,049 workers on the project's pay roll, only 17.7% were Reliefers; the balance was high-paid labor...
...European diplomacy, Dictator Stalin was simply clearing the decks to be ready at a moment's notice to jump either way. Foreign Commissar Molotov, inexperienced in diplomacy, represents no fixed foreign policy. Chief claim to U. S. fame was his denunciation of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh as a "paid liar" for alleged slurs on Soviet aviation. Speaking German and French, he will still be able to talk turkey with the British-French "Peace Front." If these talks fail (as they were on the point of doing last week) he can turn to negotiations with the Dictators' front...
...Allison had its newest secret, the world's most powerful aircraft engine, on display in G. M.'s Building on New York's World's Fair grounds for all to see. Because it was displayed as casually as Poe's purloined letter, few visitors paid any attention...
...capacity than the independents, has faced bitter price competition in the profitable (to others) Detroit steel market, has had much of its capacity in Pittsburgh and Chicago idle because of stagnant demand for capital goods. Last quarter it made only 18? a share on its preferred stock, grimly paid holders the $1.75 coming to them: the difference, $5,644,368 (nearly half the size of Chrysler's profit for the quarter), came out of a generation of accumulated fat. This followed a $32,937,131 drain in 1938, caused by a loss of $7,717,454 and preferred stock...