Word: pay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bellairs & friends once borrowed the corpse of a Chinese from the morgue, took it to a saloon, ordered plenty of drinks, left the Chinese to pay the bill. The bartender shook the Chinese to awaken him, knocked him down, tried desperately to hide the body while Bellairs & Co., peering through the window, howled with ribald glee...
Poultrymen wish the New Deal would stop worrying about cotton, grain & tobacco growers and pay some attention to them. Said one delegate to last week's Congress: "Poultry produces enough dollars every year to make the income of U.S. Steel Corp. look like chicken feed." He might have added that it is not much more profitable as a business. As long as three out of four eggs are a byproduct of general farming-produced with little direct cost-competition keeps prices down to a level where there is little profit in the business for most specialists...
...Edward Stettinius much the same story, minus the sugar-coating common dividend. White-haired, springy, no geranium in the profane steel business, young (aged 38) Ed Stettinius is the kind of man who looks his Corporation's troubles in the eye. He announced: 1) that Big Steel would pay its regular quarterly preferred dividend (again better than 75% unearned); 2) that second-quarter earnings ($1,309,761) were about $650,000 more than the first quarter's-but only because the Corporation decided to cut depreciation charges by $700,000. Three days later Mr. Stettinius had no happier...
...pay Mr. Hill's 1938 salary ($51,777), it could be calculated that the road has to haul 6,472,125 tons of average freight a mile. Considering the fact that L. & N. has made money year after year while most other Class I roads are in the soup, he is doubtless worth...
...Calais, France, a U. S. tourist, miffed when French customs agents warned her that the tax-free time limit on her $6,669 Cadillac had nearly expired and that she would have to take it out of the country or pay a heavy duty, embarked with it for England. At Dover customs officials barred the car's entry. Deeply miffed, she abandoned her Cadillac, had it dumped into...