Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...machine guns from a U.S. Government arsenal last April for use against Betancourt. Browder, the FBI said, organized last week's bombing mission, recruited the U.S. flyers and promised the pilots $30,000 apiece for the job. The question the FBI did not answer: Who financed Browder and paid for the planes...
...Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret paid a visit to a reclamation project, where the wind proved bitter arid the Queen proved adaptable. For the sake of her ears she put on a scarf; for the sake of appearance she left on her hat. The result faintly suggested a Conestoga wagon...
...staffers confessed to running a downtown office where they took fees for getting publicity into the Times. Several were paid regular retainers by politicians. One reporter was charging $2 a head to Tacomans who wanted their pictures in the paper. Owners Ed and Jim Scripps, grandsons of the late E. W. ("Lusty") Scripps, did little in the way of removing temptation by raising wages. Said Ed Scripps: "I didn't know reporters were taking money but things weren't as bad on the Times as they are on other papers on the West Coast...
...fourth-floor rooms. Author Christopher Isherwood, Poet Louis Mac-Neice, Composers Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson drifted in & out. At meals, Auden presided at one end of the table. He also did the bookkeeping, and was irritated if any of the tenants questioned their bills. Benjy always paid up (about $25 a week) without a murmur...
...churchgoer), he thought he belonged there. But first he went to see Conductor Serge Koussevitzky, who had played some of Britten's music. Koussevitzky gave him $200 a month for five months to write an opera.* Says Koussevitzky: "If he had asked more we would have paid...