Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Economy Measure. In Baltimore, Philip Epstein paid $1 and costs for slugging a hypnotist, whom he accused of causing Mrs. Epstein to yearn for "castles in the air. . . trips to Cuba...
...same oath had often before been honored more in the breach than in the observance, and there were some in St. Moritz who thought the 1948 Olympic games would be the last. It was not simply the old sneering gossip about which amateur got paid how much, or the sometimes unequal struggle between sportsmanship and competitive spirit, intensified by national rivalries. There was a deeper and grimmer game afoot: for some "iron cur tain" countries, like Rumania and Yugoslavia, competition had become almost a matter of life & death; some athletes were nervous about going back home if they didn...
What looked like the biggest eyepopper was Western Maryland Railway Co., which earned $7.34 a share last year, and sold last week at $10. The catch, as in many low-priced stocks, was that its arrears ($136) on preferred stock had to be paid before common stockholders got anything. Another eye-opener was American Woolen Co., which earned an estimated $15 last year and actually paid out $10 in dividends, but last week sold...
...Girls,"the workers became "students." Then Joe started a real school, with eleven courses in textile technique (one class a week) for Crown workers. Joe's idea was to train workers for the new cost-cutting machines and processes he was constantly installing in his plants. It paid off double; the school became so popular that during the worst of the manpower shortage Joe had more applicants than he could hire...
Already, his twelve-year influx comprises 3,000 work sheets-some by famed poets, some by small fry; some written methodically in notebooks, others jotted on old envelopes or on the backs of gas-and-electricity bills which do not always appear to have been paid...