Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a new period of prosperity. In 1854 a fire burned down the farm's flour mill and some other buildings. Though the loss involved only $9,000 (the farm was then worth $80,000), the members voted to disband. The farm was sold in parcels, the stockholders paid off, and the members went their own individual ways. The buildings slowly decayed...
Gripes in B.A. As Argentina's postwar trade boom slowed down (so far this year, exports are about one-third of 1948's), Dodero complained that the government's state-trading policies were at fault. Despite their long friendship, Perón paid him no heed. Instead, he made him a take-itor-leave-it offer to sell out to the government...
...Dodero properties were worth much more than the government paid for them and the fact that Don Alberto would sell at such a bargain price left Argentines breathless. Whatever the government pressure, the public could only conclude that Dodero knew when to get out. Apparently shrewd Don Alberto foresaw no future for free enterprisers like himself in Perón's Argentina...
...repeated flops in both radio and movies-a special irony for pushy Milton Berle, who has lived his life to feed what he calls "my great want to conquer." The flops hurt deeply and worried him about his appeal to a mass audience. But they forced him into well-paid jobs in nightclubs, where live audiences kept his talents supple. Meanwhile, more successful comedians were falling into the lazier habit of peering at scripts through spectacles...
...When an unemployed actor with a chance to get a vaudeville job ran into him on Broadway and asked for material, he stayed up all night in a hotel room, pouring gags into the man. He also helped salvage an actress from alcoholism, wrote an act for her, paid for its musical arrangements, made the bookings and appeared with her on the early engagements. He is easily approachable to down-&-outers, and generous with gifts. Among his unusual presents: plastic-nose operations just like his own for his secretary and the head of his fan club...