Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second A-bomb used in war, much less publicized but far more powerful than the first bomb dropped on Hiroshima, fell on Nagasaki (pop. 250,000). Last week, 3½ years after the city's fiery ordeal, TIME Correspondent Sam Welles paid it a visit. His report...
...entered the Navy as a public relations officer and was soon transferred to sea duty on the U.S.S. Enterprise. Four years aboard "The Big E," he saw it through almost every major Pacific naval campaign from Santa Cruz and Guadalcanal to the Gilberts and Marshalls. He was paid off in 1946 as the ship's First Lieutenant. Today, his ground-floor office at the northeast corner of Weld is still littered with books and documents about the war, which he is using in preparation of a pictures-and-text book commemorating the exploits and crew of the fabulous carrier...
...Small salaries to be paid players...
...Charley there is an intangible want that none of these things fulfills, even when it can be bought and paid for. Somehow he feels that life is slapping him around, and it makes him dissatisfied and a little bitter. What is missing...
...Marquand could look back on 27 years of unbroken writing success. In all those years he has finished every book and story he ever started, has sold everything he has written except one short story ("It was supposed to be funny and wasn't"). The Satevepost alone has paid him something like half a million dollars for the no "slicks" and serials of his that the Post has published over a period of nearly 20 years...