Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marion Goodhue, who farms 700 acres in the Des Moines River bottom lands near Carlisle, had just paid $2,300 for another three steel bins and a steel crib...
...homework with Père in charge. The boys' schoolwork got more attention than the girls'; father explained that girls got married and became wives & mothers, while boys could become priests or lawyers. He was a stern taskmaster. When his two sons entered his office as clerks, St. Laurent paid them $2.25 a week with the explanation : "When you have no money to spend, you have more time for your books." Père St. Laurent also laid down the rules for his daughters' courtships. Said daughter Madeleine: "Father's word on any subject was final...
...Chest. Singing so that back-row listeners could actually heaf was another problem. But this season plenty of top-rankers were on hand to try. On the nights when the Metropolitan Opera's Ferruccio Tagliavini sang Tosca and Lucia di Lammermoor, there were few empty seats; fans gladly paid double prices to hear once-barred (for alleged collaboration) Tenor Beniamino Gigli sing the operatic twins "Cav" and "Pag" (Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci) with popular Soprano Maria Caniglia and Baritone Tito Gobbi. Even 60-year-old Tenor Tito Schipa was on hand...
...Chicago, Hudson Dealer Jim Moran offered to transport any customer free from any point in the U.S., pay for his stay in Chicago until his car was delivered. In Detroit, the McMillan Packard agency distributed self-addressed postcards to its old customers, paid them $20 apiece for every tipoff that led to a sale. It looked as if the shakeout in the one big industry not yet affected by the recession might...
When Oak Ridge released the radioactive byproducts of its atomic pile for private use in 1946, few U.S. businessmen paid much attention. But to a handful of young M.I.T.-trained scientists it was big news; they were ready to cash in on the first U.S. commercial use of atomic energy. They had already pooled their $31,000 in savings to form Tracerlab, Inc., and had rented dilapidated quarters down near Boston's South Station...