Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...armed with 500,000 silver dollars and 10,000 40-ft. bolts of cloth for winter uniforms. "I'll console and comfort my old troops," said Fu. They needed comfort, for they had not been paid in the past six months and their summer uniforms would be' scant protection in the severe winter ahead...
Last month, Rita came back. When her husband asked her if she would like to fly to Baie Comeau to pick up a box of jewelry she trustingly agreed. Albert bought her ticket, took her to the airport, where he paid 50? for a $10,000 air-travel insurance policy, naming himself as beneficiary. Meanwhile, according to the Mounties, Mrs. Pitre, who admitted she had bought two sticks of dynamite for Guay, arrived with the package...
When the Whitney opened its salmon-pink quarters on West Eighth Street in 1931, Mrs. Force continued to focus her attention on present-day U.S. artists, letting the older established museums fill in the historical background. Mrs. Whitney paid all the bills, left $2,500,000 to keep the museum going after her death in 1942. The Whitney never offered prizes, instead spent from $10,000 to $30,000 a year buying the pictures it liked. Up until her last illness, Juliana Force moved poker-backed and sharp-eyed among American artists, watching for someone who might make another Whitney...
Simple Desires. To King, the reward was welcome but not surprising. His sugary three-quarter-time, he admits, has already made him "a little better than a millionaire." It has paid for a luxurious grey Georgian house in Chicago's suburban Kenilworth, a 680-acre Ottawa, Ill. feeder farm where cattle are fattened for market, and a 640-acre hunting reservation in Wisconsin. Last week, puffing thoughtfully on one of his 300 pipes (briars, clays and cobs), King explained why his style is so successful: "There are many people whose musical desires are very simple. We try to play...
...wake of worldwide currency devaluation last week (see FOREIGN NEWS) there were plenty of bargains-and also considerable confusion over prices. Nowhere was the confusion greater than on the international airways. On all eastbound transatlantic flights out of New York, passengers paid the usual rate of $350. But in London, westbound passengers could fly on British planes for the old rate of ?86, a saving, under devaluation...