Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minced no words. Ever since she had moved into the upper brackets of her profession, she said, she had been paying $50 a week to her old friend Sergeant Jackson for every girl in her employ. And, she added with a vengeful slap at her persecutor, she had also paid off wiretapping Sergeant Stoker to the tune of $100 a week. Although they denied it, Sergeants Stoker and Jackson, along with six other cops, were shifted to the sticks. But that didn't stop the hue & cry. Last week Police Chief Horrall, whom honest Mayor Fletcher Bowron has frequently...
...Never Had It So Good." The school in Siberia which had inculcated such thoughts and sentiments had begun bitterly. For two years the men were cold and hungry, worked unremittingly. Then the Russians eased up. For those who embraced Communism or at least paid lip service, living conditions took a sharp turn for the better. Recalled one repatriate: "I never had it so good. There was plenty to eat and the Russians were so easygoing...
...Association teachers' conference at Durham, N.H., some 500 of them came right out in the open. Why not pare vacation down to one month and keep the public schools open all year around. It would be one way to boost the salary of teachers, who now generally get paid for only nine months of work. The nation's 25 million public-school kids, it was admitted, would possibly need a bit of persuading...
From its original 200 stockholders and $50,000 capital, M.I.T. has grown to 68,000 stockholders and assets (as of last week) of $211.1 million. Over the years it has paid out about $14 million from capital gains and nearly $100 million in dividends. Though it has large blocks of stock in more than 125 companies, it follows investment-trust practice by keeping its fingers out of management...
...conservative or as speculative a program as they wanted. If their main interest was income they could buy any of four bond funds, or two preferred-stock funds; if they wanted to gamble for quick profits they could choose from four speculative common-stock funds. Sholley's plan paid off; today Keystone, with $170 million in assets, is second only to M.I.T...