Word: paid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they would renationalize steel and road transport (denationalized by the Tories since 1951), and let it go at that. But Gaitskell obviously hoped to make big campaign capital of Labor's promise of an immediate 20% boost in old-age pensions, and other welfare benefits, all to be paid for by "planned expansion" that would also get Britain back into "the race for higher productivity among industrial nations...
...afternoon last week Baghdad radio once again went on the air with the Arab world's most arresting radio show: the proceedings of Iraq's notorious People's Court. First came 3½ minutes of whooping and hollering.by the Red-paid claque that dominated the crowd in the courtroom. Then Communist-lining Colonel Fadhil Abbas Mahdawi, the court's presiding judge, wandered through 20 minutes of invective against the leaders of Nasser's U.A.R. ("gangsters and robbers") and praise for Iraq's President Abdul Karim Kassem ("leader of the whole Arab nation"). At last...
Stevens confidently expects to turn a profit on Property. "There's been a firm connection between writing and money in my head," says he, "ever since I was ten and my father* paid me a penny a line for learning Shakespeare...
...Fund quickly lent Britain $561.5 million. This, plus stern measures to cut spending, enabled Britain to stabilize its currency so successfully that it has al ready paid back $200 million of the loan...
...million to bowl. The entire bowling business, i.e., investments in alleys, bowling equipment and fees, will gross more than a billion dollars in 1959 for the first time. New bowlers are increasing at the rate of 12%-14% a year. The rules-making American Bowling Congress' paid membership has jumped to 3,250,000 this year from 1,500,000 five years ago, and the number of A.B.C. certified lanes in the U.S. has increased to 87,475 from...