Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...qualify for a bounty, a fisherman or fisherwoman must fish three months a year, catch 2,500 Ibs. of deep-sea fish and use a boat with at least a twelve-foot keel. The money is interest on Canada's share of the $5,500,000 the U.S. paid after the 1871 Treaty of Washington for rights to fish in British waters...
That night there was a council of war in the Arcaro home. Ma was willing to let Eddie give horse racing a try; Pa was dead against it. Ma won. Eddie began to gallop horses for Tom McCaffery, who paid him $15 a week and swore he'd never make a jockey. Eddie used to cry over the belittling he got. At 15 he was in Agua Caliente, broke and homesick, when he finally won his first race, on a four-year-old maiden named Eagle Bird. Then he drove up to Tanforan, Calif., to take a job with Clarence...
...Government charged that in 1932 Henkel, one of the world's biggest soapmakers, licensed some of its synthetic detergent patents to Procter & Gamble, Du Pont, and Richards Chemical Co. The royalties were paid to Hyalsol, which was set up, the Government charges, as a U.S. patent-holding company under Marks and Littell...
Luckman Jumps In. Lever Bros.' Charles Luckman, already deep in cosmetics (Harriet Hubbard Ayer and Luxor), toothpaste and soap, jumped into the booming business of home permanents (TIME, April 19). He paid Manhattan's William R. Warner & Co., Inc. about $5,000,000 for the trademarks and processes of Rayve Creme Shampoo and Hedy Home Wave...
Winthrop's fagless, hagless, jagless training program paid off yesterday as the Puritan eight took an early lead over Eliot's bulking oarsmen and held on to win by 10 feet in the last of the semifinal inter-house heats. Lowell was third by a length...