Word: paid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of newspaper editorials have echoed the fine tribute paid to the postwar accomplishments of veterans in TIME'S article, "What Ever Happened to the Veterans." I would like to add my personal commendation. The article made all of us here at VA happy and proud of our daily service to these citizens who, as you say, have become "the main stream of U.S. life itself...
...Barbara ex-convicts, who testified that mother Duncan offered them $6,000 to kill Frank's pregnant wife. They lured her into a rented automobile, beat her into unconsciousness with a pistol, strangled her, then dumped her body into a ditch. For all this, they complained, mother Duncan paid them only...
After 29 days of trial and testimony (sensation seekers paid up to $10 to more favored folk to get seats in the tiny courtroom), a jury of eight women and four men wound up disbelieving Elizabeth Duncan's protestation of innocence. The jury recommended death in San Quentin's gas chamber, left it for Judge Charles F. Blackstock to decide if she should be sent instead to a mental hospital...
...digging. Mexican authorities became conscious of their ancient heritage, prohibited the export of valuable art. Result: a new spurt in excavations and the rise of smuggling. As more exotic relics appeared in the U.S.. such art buffs as Nelson Rockefeller, John Huston, Charles Laughton became avid collectors and paid top prices...
Harvard's total payroll of $32 million last year exceeded "the sum of the payrolls of the six leading industries of Cambridge," Pusey continued. Although much of this sum is paid to employees who live--and spend--outside of the city, and "impressively large" amount of it, over $101/2 million, is paid to Cambridge residents...