Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...signed over to an army general and flown back to his bank in Shanghai. The government now knew that it did not have to tolerate abuses like that. It showed that it could learn: at Suchow this week, for the first time since the Japanese war, the troops were paid in silver. Morale, eyewitnesses reported, "bounded...
Last week, Communist Kahn's campaign paid off: he became the first Communist ever elected to South Africa's Parliament, and his Negro electorate turned out energetically to give him an impressive majority (Kahn polled 3,780 votes; his nearest contender...
...still enough to oversee the output of his 14 "rim men." They are all experts at trimming and polishing copy, as well as heading it up. They are not hampered by the shibboleths of most copy desks (Newsmen may end heads with prepositions). The News copydeskers are well-paid men by copydesk standards: they start at $110 a week and go up to $140, plus bonuses for prize heads...
Title to the property will be held by a nonprofit co-op of stockholding tenants which will also take over the debts on the hotel. The new stockholders will pay Kirkeby $3,000,000 which "would take us many years to get through the present [renting] arrangement." Having paid only $187,500 on the debts, Kirkeby's company in effect will receive about 650% on its cash interest in the property...
Campaign. In Petersfield, England, Commuter Raymond Francis Baird paid a $42 fine for pulling the emergency-stop cord on a 60-m.p.h. train, asserted: "I have written to the railway ... I will pull all trains up when they are going too fast...