Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ranging in amount between five cents and hundreds of dollars, the average check will run about 12 dollars, Cole said. Dividends paid amount to 12 per cent on cash purchases and 10 per cent on items charged...
...Senate Labor Committee launched an investigation into the administration of the fund by its three trustees, Ezra van Horn, representing the owners, Lewis for the UMW, and Senator Styles Bridges for the consumers. The Committee brought out the fact that Bridges had been paid $12,000 by the Fund for legal expenses, and had sided with Lewis in every one of the 28 disagreements to date...
...Bureau of Internal Revenue announced that August was the fourth month this year to run ahead of 1948's corresponding month in admissions tax returns. To make things even brighter, Dr. George Gallup's Audience Research, Inc. reported a steady fall in the average price of admission paid by U.S. moviegoers. With total receipts on the rise, that spelled growing attendance. The average spent for a ticket in August was 45?, compared to a postwar peak of 48.8? early in the year...
Little attention was paid to Mr. Green -so little, in fact, that Evelyn Waugh (who had just made a hit with his second novel, Vile Bodies) angrily described Living as "a neglected masterpiece." Henry Green abetted this neglect himself. He made little attempt to mingle with other literary lights, declined to be photographed. (As a special concession, last month he allowed himself to be photographed for TIME, but only in hands-to-face masquerade-see cut.) But the gossip columnists of that year had been idly poking around in search of something to say about the wedding bells...
Shadow Play. In Detroit, the motorist who got a parking ticket without the blanks filled in paid his fine by mail with an unsigned $2 check...