Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Near Düsseldorf, in the Rhineland, it was revealed that German laborers had been asked at a Yuletide Labor Front celebration to write on a slip of paper their answer to the question: "What wish would you like to have fulfilled during 1939?" Six slips read: "A new government!" The rebellious laborers were discovered, sent to a concentration camp...
...pound six footer who has a scholarship, Sears played on the Freshman football team this fall. During the summer he sold ice 12 hours a day for $20 a week; he has driven trucks for his father, who has a small paper hauling business operating from North Attleborough...
...sell about 250 newspapers a day," Monti said, "that is, about one paper to every four Freshmen." In the news magazine field, "Time" and "Newsweek" divide the honors...
...open only to newspapermen with jobs; 2) pay each holder an amount approximating his regular salary, plus free tuition; 3) require no academic credits or examinations. Each applicant must satisfy Harvard that he has a definite study plan that will make him more useful to his community, his paper and himself when he goes back to work...
...sale. He bid just once: $752,000. Thus, F. A.'s company bought back its entire funded debt, $2,350,000, at 32% of its face value, simultaneously paying off Ohio Goodyear's bank debt and canceling the profit from the stock sale. However, on the paper profit ($1,598,000) from acquiring the debentures at the written-down figure, Seiberling Rubber Co. must pay a 19% capital-gains tax of $303,620. Net result: Seiberling Rubber retired its $3,100,000 loan by a cash outlay of $1,805,620 (plus interest). F. A. lost...