Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman have it. The most telling attacks centered on the President's tax proposals. House Ways & Means Chairman Harold Knutson, who already has his own $5.6 billion tax-reduction bill on the fire, cried: "My God, I didn't know inflation had gone that far. Tom Pendergast paid only $2 a vote and now Truman proposes to pay $40." Cracked House Majority Leader Charles Halleck: "What, no mule...
...talented out-of-town players board, room and scholarships, plus incidental expenses. But it all comes back in gate receipts, and plenty more besides. College basketball, like college football, is now big business. It is also the No. 1 U.S. sport in attendance figures. Last year, 75 million people paid to see basketball games. Baseball, which considers itself the great American game, was 10,000,000 admissions behind, and football, which draws its big crowds only once a week, was third...
...Money. So the U.S. paid for its first try at bailing out the world with higher prices all around. Everyone, as expected, put the blame on everyone else. Foreign nations blamed the U.S. for the high prices, which had sucked away their cash, without conceding that their buying had helped boost the prices. Corporations took a big cut out of the income pie; net corporate profits after taxes (including the "paper" profits on inventories) of $17.4 billion were up 39% over net profits in 1946. (But corporations still had a smaller share of the total income than...
...also a significant shift in the size of the cut that the different segments of labor got. John L. Lewis' mine workers, once $24-a-week workers, were the aristocrats of labor; their wages averaged more than $70 a week. The auto workers, once about the best paid, were passed in the wage parade by a handful of others...
...Jesse Grant refused to attend the dedication of his father's tomb in New York until the city paid his and his family's round-trip expenses from Tia Juana...