Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another committee hearing, special attention was paid to the economic plight of U.S. postmen. Before a Senate Civil Service subcommittee appeared beauteous Mrs. Jeanne Bolen, mother of three and wife of a Washington letter carrier. In a few brief minutes of testimony, she showed the Senators what inflation is doing to all people on fixed salaries. She reported that even though she does all her own housework, her annual budget adds up to $3,274.71, including $49 for her husband's work shoes, but nothing for recreation or emergencies. Yet Mr. Bolen makes only $3,100 a year. Added...
Like many another Indian, Gandhi felt that a new cycle of mass riots was approaching. But his once loyal disciples, distracted by new political power, paid less & less attention to his struggle for peace...
...largely banned) there was no remedy yet. Abbott did a little muscle-flexing and told the Prices Board to start "exemplary prosecutions" where prices are "higher than is reasonable and just." While government leaders talked of scaring the daylights out of the profiteers, housewives in Montreal still paid 59? a head for lettuce...
Memphis' boll-headed Boss Ed Crump told the press that he had got a note demanding $50,000 on pain of death. Crump paid, said he-one cent postage due on the letter. He took a brown grip to a designated spot and left it there for 40 minutes, but nobody came for it. So Crump cleared his throat and read to reporters the contents of the grip: "To the coward perpetrating this dastardly thing: anyone could take a white mouse with baby teeth and run you in the Mississippi River...
...thereafter kept him supplied with enough money to maintain-for 26 years-the hoax of a private bonanza. Johnson built Scotty a $3,000,000 castle in the '30s, revealed in 1941 that he had also "lent" him $500,000 over three decades. Chuckled Johnson: "He paid me back in laughs...