Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's greatest astronomers inaugurated when he was a young University of Chicago professor, record our disappointment and surprise that George Ellery Rale's great part in originating and developing the 200-inch telescope project was not highlighted in the otherwise splendid tribute which your recent issue paid to Dr. Edwin Hubble and his associates...
...Gadget. Since women acquired the vote, they had become a potent, if erratic, political force. Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach spoke them fair, pointed out that women now constitute 28% of the labor force (they are also 50.8% of the voting population). President Truman came, paid respectful tribute to the power of their purses,* had words of high praise for one woman: "Mrs. Roosevelt has made a wonderful contribution to the nation [in her work with U.N.] since the President died." (He added, disarmmgly: "He is the only one I ever think of as President...
...affections he kept were Lenchen Demuth, the Marxes' lifelong, devoted servant (who could handle Marx even in his blackest moods) and Friedrich Engels, whom one acquaintance described as "the little Pomeranian." Engels, first with his father's money, then with his own profits as a textile manufacturer, paid Marx's bills. (In a letter to Engels Marx wrote: "I have worked out a sure scheme for getting some money out of your...
Lucky Loophole. Otis & Co. had slipped out of the money-losing deal through a loophole provided in the nick of time by a Philadelphia lawyer named James F. Masterson. The day the underwriters were to have paid K-F for the stock, Masterson had filed suit in Detroit to prevent the stock from being sold, charging that the company had rigged the price of its stock and that the underwriters would make an excessive profit on it. Fortunately for Otis & Co., its contract with K-F provided that such a suit would nullify the deal...
Unlucky Henry. Kaiser-Frazer had paid through the nose for that stock-buying job. Wall Street gossiped that many of those with inside information had taken advantage of the "stabilizing" to unload their holdings at the higher price. After K-F stopped buying, the stock started down. At $11, K-F had already lost over $460,000 on its stock. K-F had suffered another blow. It had tied up a good chunk of its ready cash in stock. With all the hue & cry over the stock, chances looked slim that K-F would soon be able to find...