Word: pay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enthusiastic extras were to have received $1.00 a performance for the privilege of serving their muse. However, because of long rehearsals and a special boon by Orson ("Falstaff") Welles, their pay has been raised to $2.00 for each performance and rehearsal...
...after patient cruise taking soundings of the shoals north of Yerba Buena (Goat) Island, perfecting the idea of pumping up out of the Bay's black bottom a site for the fair which could later serve the city as an airport. Crafty Democrat George Creel got WPA to pay for the pumping...
Eurith Dickinson Rivers to Washington, helped in "contacting Federal agencies to obtain funds." Asked if this was not "promotion" (for which PWA clients may not pay on pain of having their contracts voided), Chip responded: "Certainly not. That's organization...
...ways, hopes to make British India bone dry to Indians some day. Prompted by Saint Gandhi and guided by Coordinator Patel, Congress provincial governments have outlawed the distillation, sale and consumption of liquor in numerous small experimental areas. In other places bars and liquor shops have been closed on pay days, thus making it more likely that the Hindu workman will get home with his salary before spending it on coconut toddy, a sort of ancient moonshine which is his favorite cheap drink...
...highest duties, the Cardinals will mark their ballots, place them one at a time in a chalice. When one of them is elected Pope (by a two-thirds majority), he expresses his acceptance (if he feels worthy; some do not), chooses a name, dons a white soutane. The Cardinals pay him homage. All the baldachins except that of the new Pontiff are folded back to the walls. To show the crowds outside that "a Pope has been made," the ballots, which previously have been burned in the conclave stove with damp straw (to send up black smoke), are this time...