Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorkers, who disregard nature until it makes more noise than the subway, paid scant attention to the snow that was falling when they awakened one day last week. The day was almost mild (29°), the sky was a conservative shade of grey and the wind breathed as apologetically as a Japanese diplomat. The snowflakes themselves descended in a silent and orderly manner, like letters dropping down a mail chute in a good trust company. It was mid-afternoon before the average citizen began to notice how heavily the smothering snow was falling (it averaged 1.8 inches per hour...
...home and tottering dynasties abroad, handed Italy over to Benito Mussolini. It was the first -and last-time he ever defied his ministers; henceforth he was impotent to prevent his downfall. But Benito, the blacksmith's son, promised to look after the little king. The Italian people paid the price for 23 years...
...Britain is expected to get $185 million worth of Canadian products (compared with $150 million in the first quarter of 1947). Britain will sell Canada an estimated $40 million worth of goods, $45 million can be drawn from the shrinking Canadian credit, and the remaining $100 million will be paid in U.S. dollars from Britain's hoard. If ERP meets Canada's hopes, she can afford to rewrite the three-month agreement, giving Britain better terms for a longer period...
...first salvo, he charged that "in the past nine years Behn and his board of directors . . . have received more than $3,700,000 in salaries and fees while the . . . stockholders . . . have received nothing." l.T. & T. had not paid a dividend in 14 years, he pointed out, even though it showed profits in eleven of those years. Last year, when almost everyone else was making money, l.T. & T. lost $10 million. How, demanded Ryan, could the management explain away such a record...
...Sosthenes Behn broke a tradition of more than 20 years. He called a press conference to explain matters. The lack of dividends, said he, was caused by the company's hoarding of cash against possible loss on its foreign assets. He pointed out that l.T. & T. had paid off $120 million in debts in the last 15 years. Last year's loss was entirely the result of production problems in Federal Telephone & Radio Corp., a U.S. manufacturing subsidiary...