Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talks wore on, with the Big Steel negotiators still at loggerheads, the biggest hope for a break appeared this week in an unexpected quarter. In Detroit, the Ford Motor Co. announced that it had offered the auto workers' Walter Reuther a company-paid pension plan in line with the recommendations of the steel board. Ford cautiously reported real progress, and Henry Ford II made plans to leave this week for Europe despite Reuther's peremptory announcement that he was issuing a strike notice, effective Sept. 29. If autos settled, there was still a good chance that steel would...
...kept his own counsel. He drove his Cadillac over to White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. (acquiring a ticket for speeding on the way) to attend negotiations with the northern, and western coal operators. John Lewis had no quarrel with them over the miners' welfare-fund payments; they had paid theirs faithfully, even sending along $3,000,000 last week despite the strike...
They rode up & down the cliff in ancient funiculars (the "Inclines"), jammed the buses and trolley cars which filled the cobblestone, alley-like streets. The luckier and better-paid lived in nearby suburbs. Most of the wealthy had fled to the distant suburbs of Sewickley Heights, Fox Chapel, or to Rolling Rock, 50 miles to the east in the mountains near the Pennsylvania Turnpike...
Return from Exile. Over the years, Blackmer made some overtures of peace to the U.S. In all, he paid $3,671,065 in income taxes, $60,000 in penalties. This summer, after 25 years in exile, Henry Blackmer decided the time for his return had come. Last week he and his wife boarded an Air France plane at Paris and were flown to Boston. As they set out for Denver by train, it was easy to see that time had taken its toll with the Darling of the Gods. He was stooped and almost blind. But he still knew...
...cagey, hard-driving John J. McCloy, France's scholarly, elegant André Francois-Poncet, Britain's shy, gruff General Sir Brian Robertson. Facing the commissioners across a red carpet, Adenauer announced formally that he had formed his government. In a brief speech he paid tribute to the Allies' help to Germany, expressed the hope that Germany would soon get greater autonomy...