Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night after Henry Wallace announced himself a candidate for the presidency of the U.S., he turned up with Russophile Singer Paul Robeson on the stage of the darkened Milwaukee Auditorium. Standing under a dramatic spotlight, facing an audience of 3,600 who had paid from 50? to $2 apiece to hear him,* Candidate Wallace began laying down his campaign platform. From offstage, a microphone boomed: "This is the voice of the people for Wallace. Now is the time to stand up and be counted...
Nobody had the answer: already stevedores' wages were better than those paid in other ports of Colombia. As for the cargo bottleneck, it will be eased only when the single track railway and the unpaved highway leading into the interior are improved, and so far no plans are afoot for the work...
...appraisal of the estate if the late Washington hostess, Evalyn Walsh McLean exploded a popular myth. Her famed, traditionally unlucky, 44¼-kt. Hope Diamond, which Sunday-supplement readers had thought of as a $2,000,000 gem, was valued at $176,920 ($22,920 more than was paid...
...like his attitude," she explained later). She wanted to talk to the chief. When Fannie and the cop got to the station house, 1) the chief was "unavailable," and 2) she learned that she would give her name and pay $5 or go to jail. She gave, paid and kept a date with a westbound plane...
Fifty-four more undergraduates have signed up with the HYRC since December 12, bringing the club's total paid-up supporters to 260, the largest of any political group in the university...