Word: pay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bugaboo that a short time afterward when the government asked for ratification of the Franco-British debt settlement (TIME, May 10. 1926), it was voted through in a few seconds by a mere show of hands. Comparatively small, as such gargantuan matters go, the British Settlement pledges France to pay ?653,727,900 over 67 years...
...falling raindrop; but above the water line her bow ceases to be bulbous, is keen as a bayonet edge. Luxury features of the Bremen include a street of arcaded shops; an all-night night club called The Astoria; and an optional Ritz Restaurant, where first class passengers may pay extra for a la carte food. First class Bremen tickets cost $315 up-"Highest minimum rate on the Atlantic...
...them back to Buenos Aires. Unfortunately President Irigoyen had neglected to send any money. As Horatius defied the armies of Clusium, British shipbuilders stood on the bridge of their destroyers and refused to surrender them to the Argentine Navy. Not only did the Argentine Navy have no money to pay for the new destroyers, they had no money to pay port dues for their transport, were forced to steam away and use the free anchorage at Cowes, off Southampton. There was no money to buy supplies. Officers and sailors had to beg money from friends to buy food...
...vain irate creditor firms throughout the world protested that their contracts had been authorized by the Argentine Congress and are binding, even mandatory upon the Treasury. The essential fact is simply that President Hipolito Irigoyen is the absolute and irresponsible "political boss" of Argentina. When he chooses to pay there will be no difficulty, for receipts and surplus in the Argentine Treasury are adequate, even above normal. Friends of Argentina hoped that "Irigoyen's Whim" would not become "Irigoyen's Folly...
...same amount of the public funds. W. M. Kern, school superintendent of Walla Walla, Wash., believes that laziness accounts for most failures. Last week he asked his school board to evaluate a high school education, suggested $480, or $30 per course. He would have students who repeat courses pay $30 per repetition. Thus, he said, "no pupil could complain since each ... would have as much money spent on him as any other...