Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barely a week after the lifting of the Berlin blockade, the city echoed to the blast of gunfire and the shouts of angry mobs. Trouble started over the fact that Berlin's city railways and elevated lines, which are controlled by the Russians, paid their workers in East zone marks, although most live in the Western sectors. Those workers wanted their wages in West marks (the only legal tender where they live, and four times the value of the East marks). Last week, 16,000 workers of the non-Communist Independent Railway Workers Union walked...
...trade unions. "Today there is not much chance for us," admitted a Communist central committeeman in Rome last week. Then he added: "All we are doing is preparing for tomorrow." And the best hope for a Red tomorrow still lay in the plight of Italy's ill-paid, ill-fed, ill-housed masses...
Works like Pugilatore and Cavaliere are uncommon enough at any time. Taken with the rest of the Philadelphia show, they seemed to argue that contemporary sculpture, long an ill-paid stepchild of the arts, is a rangy, lively fellow...
...market shot up 52 points; the 1948 peak came during a 30-point rise. This moved Wall Street's Francis I. du Pont & Co. to observe last week that the new bearish peak merely means that "Johnny Come Lately is on the bear side [and] it has not paid big dividends to follow him in the past...
...House Ways & Means Committee. Mills introduced a bill which would require corporations to pay all their 1949 taxes before July 1, 1950, instead of in four quarterly pay-ments-thus adding an estimated $4.6 billion to tax receipts for the next fiscal year, which ordinarily would not have been paid until the following fiscal year. The Treasury took the idea under advisement, while G.O.P. lawmakers rightly complained that it was mere "figure-juggling" which would only postpone the deficit while penalizing small corporations without big tax reserves...