Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...form of a caustic-soda bath. After some thought, restorers, under the direction of Florence's Professor Bruno Bearzi, dissolved the statue's lumpy green shell, showed the gilded bronze beneath. Last week San Ludovico stood on his pedestal again in a Manhattan gallery where visitors paid 60? a head to see the ten-foot figure blaze under spotlights in a black-velvet niche...
...Flesh. As This Week was a supplement in such family journals as the New York Herald Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer and 22 others, Nichols thought it would pay "to be decent." Said he: "I'm neither pious nor preachy but my first principle is success and [decency] has paid off in success. You can bore a mass audience to death with acres of flesh. Why did burlesque...
...Cissy Patterson's daughter will get no share of the Times-Herald, but she will get the mother's Long Island home and other personal property left her under the will. She had also been willed a $25,000 annual income. Instead, she will take a tax-paid lump sum of around $400,000. Otherwise, as her attorneys had already told the court, federal taxes alone might eat up two-thirds of the $16,500,000 estate. There might be nothing left to pay either charitable bequests or Countess Gizycka's annual income...
...County during the '30s, famed for his rough treatment of United Mine Workers organizers; of a heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. In 1937, Middleton admitted to the La Follette Civil Liberties Investigations Committee that he owned coal company stock, and that most of his 370-odd deputies were paid by the coal companies (documents showed that one-quarter of them had criminal records...
...boosted its quarterly dividend from 50? to 62½?. Wheeling Steel kept to its regular rate ($1 a quarter), though its earnings had jumped to $23.24 per common share (v. $18.66 last year), nearly half the current market price of its stock. Even tiny Barium Steel, which had never paid a dividend, declared one of 10% in stock...