Word: paid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increase estimated in this budget." He asked Congress to extend corporation and excise taxes at present rates for another year, also requested Congress to up the federal gasoline tax from 3? to 4½? a gallon and slap a new 4½? tax on jet fuels (to be paid by commercial airlines now entering the jet age). For the plain, suffering taxpayer, the President held out only the hope that his program would bring "tax reduction in the reasonably foreseeable future...
Capitulation. The contagion of defiance spread from below ground to the surface. Passengers refused to board a London bus because it was "revoltingly grubby." The bus was promptly cleaned. Newspapers cheered on the mutineers. Cried the Sunday Graphic: "The time has come to insist on getting what you have paid for. In every place where the service is bad or inconsiderate, go and start a row. A big one. You'd be surprised how it pays off." Crowed the Sunday Dispatch: "The moral is-kick up a fuss wherever there is sloppiness or inefficiency. As big a fuss...
...strike, which rose over a wage dispute--the Coke men were being paid less than the Pepsi and 7-Up drivers--is far from settlement, according to the president...
...Commonwealth to lease the land to MeBAC and to construct foundations for a theatre (an expenditure of some $200,000). This theatre, as well as a projected center for visual arts and opera house, would then be run by MeBAC and the original debt to the Commonwealth paid off, hopefully, by box office receipts...
...Room rents will be down, down, down," Dean Robert Hall announced last week over WHRB, "but values will be up, up, up." Robertino, as he is known to his many friends the CRIMSON learned recently, said, "Harvard's soak-the-rich policy has finally paid off. Dividends right across the board, Yessiree...