Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went outside and lurked in the narrow, cobblestoned Via della Missione. Shortly before noon, he saw his prey coming out- Togliatti and Leonilda Iotti, full-bosomed, warm-eyed secretary to the Red parliamentary bloc. Togliatti & friend were bound for a gelateria and a cooling dish of ice cream. They paid no heed to the young man in the ill-fitting blue suit...
When one testy Congressman shouted, "Why don't you all go home?" a photographer growled back: "Why don't you kiss my foot?" But this persistent, annoying hullabaloo paid off to newspapers and readers. The picture coverage of the Democratic Convention, and the G.O.P. Convention before it, was the most complete in journalistic history...
...latest ambitious project: to put a full-length Technicolor record of this summer's Olympic Games on the world's screens within a bare three weeks of the last event. Instead, the predominant noise was a squawk from other moviemakers, shut out of the Olympics when Rank paid ?25,000 for exclusive film (and television) rights. By last week, however, with Rank's announcement of final arrangements, everyone calmed down...
...aircraft engines and planes, wanted to hold the cash to tide the company over the uncertain future. But a group of vociferous stockholders last winter complained that the cash in the mattress alone was about three times the market value of its stock. They wanted some of the cash paid...
...took traders no time at all to calculate that that was a return of close to 20%. And there was still more to come. Curtiss-Wright's President Guy W. Vaughan announced that at least $1 a share - and additional dividends as the "directors deem prudent"-would be paid...