Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indiana's excitement was matched in Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, where other state tourneys are in progress. In the Midwest last week it was easy to prove that basketball, the poor boy's game, plays to larger crowds than any other U.S. sport (1,241,594 people paid to see last year's tourney in Indiana alone...
...school was organized as a town, to teach civic duty; boys paid '"town" taxes on their radios and bicycles, purchased "licenses" to hunt & fish on the 3,000-acre campus. Mrs. Riddle provided a blooded herd (one Guernsey cow cost $60,000) for the instruction of her young gentleman farmers. She also spent money on good instructors...
...many crusades that it often seemed to forget what the crusading was about. From shrill liberalism it had wandered into the pro-Russian camp-then had scurried out again and, recently, raised a horrified voice against Russia and also against its erstwhile hero, Henry Wallace. It had paid its way for only one year (1944-45). It had snooted advertising for six years, then found few advertisers wanted to come in when it opened its columns to them. Its circulation, which hit a peak of 164,686 in 1946, was down to 140,834 last week...
Public Stock. In a public sale, J. P. Morgan & Co. got about 600 new stockholders. Investors paid $5,700,000 for 25,000 shares of Morgan stock owned by the late Thomas W. Lamont. The sale raised to 33½% the stock held by the public...
...world. The MacArthur ad hit the Boston papers with a hearty "Harvard Vets Oppose MacArthur" headline. But the ad itself cannot be held responsible for what people infer. If, as in this case. Boston newsmen don't have time to do a little investigating, if they happen to interpret paid political ads erroneously, it is no fault of Chandler, Cook, and Knight...