Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sweet Sixteen." The delegates were rewarded with a fleeting glimpse of Wallace, who appeared briefly at Convention Hall, then was rushed back to his hotel. The climax came the next night at Shibe Park, home of the Philadelphia Athletics. Some 30,000 people, who paid 65? to $2.60 for seats, all but filled the vast, covered stands. Banks of blinding floodlights beat down on the speakers' platform erected near second base...
...always arranged his schedule to arrive at a new command in midafternoon, so that the commanding officer could look him over and decide whether to invite him to dinner. "I was always the only colored officer at my post," he recalled. "But it made no difference to me. Nobody paid any attention, and at every post I managed to make friends with somebody...
...rate. In the Calle Isabel la Catolica, flooded by recent rains, money changers stood shin deep in water, clinking handfuls of gold coins and arguing prices. They offered six and seven pesos for a dollar and readily went higher. Anxious travelers and others who urgently needed dollars paid 10, 12, and even...
...departure, as no U.S. superliners have ever made money over any length of time. A case in point is the 26,314-ton America, present queen of the U.S. commercial fleet. Built for U.S. Lines eight years ago at a cost of $17,586,478 (of which the Government paid one-third), the America was bought by the Government for $10,853,791 in 1942 for use as a troopship (the West Point), was reconverted at a cost of $6,883,424 and chartered to U.S. Lines in 1946. Last week the company bought the America back for only...
Died. William Nelson Cromwell, 94, eminent New York corporation lawyer (founding partner of Sullivan & Cromwell); in Manhattan. One of the organizers of U.S. Steel, Cromwell was the last surviving principal (as general counsel) of the dubious New Panama Canal Co. that paid French engineering interests an estimated $5,000,000 "for canal rights in Panama, talked Theodore Roosevelt into buying them up for $40 million...