Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue," the British press dubbed him when he came to England last month dressed in a blue suit, shirt, tie and socks. With quiet dignity, the man in blue had paid official calls, passed in & out of Buckingham Palace during the week of Princess Elizabeth's wedding, worked late at his suite at the Dorchester. There had been a weekend with Prime Minister Attlee at Chequers, and a Savoy reception by the Canada Club. Once Mr. King slipped away to visit his portrait painter, Artist Frank Salisbury, at Hampstead. There, after dinner, Mrs. Salisbury had played his favorite, Handel...
...general was tired. And, like many another high-ranking, low-paid public servant, he was having personal budget trouble. Last week Major General Paul Ramsey Hawley, who in two years had achieved a "miracle" reorganization of veterans' medicine (TIME, Oct. 13), resigned as medical director of the Veterans Administration. General Omar Bradley, VA Administrator, who had persuaded him to take the job, was leaving. Hawley thought it was about time he left...
...thought that Bob Hannegan & Co.* had paid anything like five times too much. But it was no secret that the Cardinal farm system was running...
...season's supply of opera without knowing what they are getting, were beginning to wonder. The Met had stars who could both sing and act-Melchior, Tagliavini, Traubel, Albanese, Pons, Pinza. Four out of the six had yet to be heard this season. Some stars whom season subscribers paid to see now put in only two or three "prestige" performances a year to keep their names bright for the movies and the cigarette ads, the guest appearances on Sinatra programs, and the fat recording contracts...
...buying price, they would probably not be able to buy crude. In explanation of the increase, Sun's Vice President John Glenn (Jack) Pew* said that his company had "found it increasingly difficult to obtain crude oil. . [because] of ever-increasing premiums which are being paid ... by many of our competitors." But many oilmen disagreed when Pew added that "an increased price will prove an incentive for stimulating increased production" Crude was short because of high demand, lack of transportation and a shortage of drilling equipment for new wells. No price rise could cure these conditions...