Word: pay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Full Service. In St. Paul, Minn., when Motorist Darrald Schoenheider refused to pay $7 for having his 1934 Buick hauled out of a swamp, the tow-truck driver returned to the scene, shoved Schoenheider's car back into the swamp...
...Music department attempts. Dr. Capito used to get a lump in his throat when he listened to Smetana's Moldau. He wondered why some American composer couldn't write as good a piece about the Kanawha, the river that flows through his home town. He offered to pay the conductor-composer of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra $1,000 for the kind of composition he had in mind. A fortnight ago the biggest Charleston symphony audience in history heard the result with great pleasure...
...boldly expensive Louisiana Purchase, which he likened to his own plan of expansion: the Fair Deal. Cried Truman: "There are people who contend that these programs will cost too much, just as the reactionaries in Jefferson's day contended that $15 million was too much to pay for a million square miles of new territory. They were wrong in Jefferson's time, and they're just as wrong today...
...worked for a short while in a Boston shoe factory. But then "we saw this empty store," Mama explains, "and a German we met said we should start for ourselves because we had no money and couldn't lose any. So we borrowed $43 to pay the rent on the house and the store and started repairing shoes...
...Augarten and some others did not accept this pay. Others were strictly mercenaries or adventurers who left whenever they felt like it. Any one was free to go home when he wanted...