Word: pay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eccles claim that while Federal spending makes taxes higher, it makes it easier for taxpayers to pay them: a table of relative per capita income and taxes...
...preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. ... As the doctrine is that a public debt is a public blessing, so they think a perpetual one is a perpetual blessing, and therefore wish to make it so large that we can never pay...
...hiring dialogue writers, and not creators, the Hummerts save lots of money. Most serial writers in radio command $200 to $400 a week. For The Goldbergs, Gertrude Berg gets about $2,000. The Hummerts pay a minimum $25 per 15-minute script. Since most Hummert ghosts are glad to add caviar to bread-&-butter from other jobs, they have seldom squawked...
...only writers but actors are concerned with B-S-H's system. Radio has no prescribed wage scale, although most big agency production units pay a basic wage of about $25 for a 15-minute stint, rehearsals included. Featured Artists Service, Inc., the Hummert casting agency, pays a basic $12.50 but rehearsals are briefer than most and great numbers of players get fairly steady work (a serial can hold out as long as a sponsor can). But American Federation of Radio Artists (A. F. of L. affiliated) insists that this is not reason enough for half-pay. Last week...
...Harvey Dow Gibson to win the ultimate in stockholder encomiums. When he concluded a lengthy explanation of the banking drought by expressing the belief that "there is, as we enter the new year, less cause for pessimism than there has been for some time," an unidentified stockholder rose to pay him tribute. After fumbling around for words, the hard-pressed man finally gushed: "If I were a woman, I'd say you're wonderful...