Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Situation: Precarious. The talk easily turned to politics. The President admitted that Bronx Boss Ed Flynn and New York State Democratic Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick had paid a super-secret call to discuss the New York political situation, and insisted that they had left happy. Reporters learned later that Flynn had shown the President an advance copy of a resolution he introduced at a meeting of New York's convention delegates, in which Truman's domestic policy was praised and his Palestine policy damned. The delegates themselves were uninstructed; the New York situation was unsettled at best...
...Bruce Rogers, top-shelf book designer, the American Academy of Arts and Letters paid its highest honor-a gold medal the academy had created in 1915 and awarded only six times...
Railroader Robert R. Young had something new to show off. His Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. had paid the Government $4,000,000 for the Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., famed watering place for pre-Civil War Southerners and resort for U.S. Presidents (13 had slept there). It had spent another $4,200,000 refurbishing...
...Conditioned Mattress. His father did not get in the company, says young Rand, because "he didn't think much of it.'' But the washer has already paid off handsomely. All told, Bendix will pay $500,000 down, plus a royalty of $2.50 apiece on the first 100,000 washers. (It will scale down to $1 apiece after...
Saigon (Paramount), where Alan Ladd turns up with Veronica Lake after his fatiguing operations in China and Calcutta, concerns a lot of Amerasian hugger-mugger over a stray $500,000. During the film, at least three well-paid players die for the purpose of bringing Alan and Veronica together. It seems a shocking waste of life until, doubtless referring to all the money Saigon is sure to make at the box office, Paramount has Veronica explain: "All this happened because it had to happen...