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Beans & Whiskers. M. Schuman said he wanted a showdown; that he would push for "unconditional capitulation." The Cocos were already cringing. They asked a 1,500-franc payment for each striking worker to tide him over the Dec. 1 payday. Schuman refused...
...printers' plates. Morgenthau, with the approval of the Department of State and apparently of President Roosevelt, turned the plates over just before V-E day. The Russians ran off an estimated ten billion marks ($1 billion) and paid off their troops, who had waited a long time for payday. The Russians were smarter than Mr. Morgenthau; they specified that printing-press marks were spendable only in Germany, could not be turned in for rubles...
...Hampson put Bentleyville's main problem this way: when the miners walked out last April, they had the OPA and plenty of savings and war bonds to fall back on. But that 59-day strike had burned off the fat, and put most of them, back on a payday to payday existence. "Now, with prices up-" he said, and let his voice trail away...
...escaped the married state but not by much. In fact, Ernie Hyne (our late platoon leader) has reconsidered and in a few weeks there will be another person waiting at the end of the pay line. (As a service to all newly arrived brides we announce that the next payday will be Monday 16 July...
...Christmas rush was running like a payday crap game. By Thanksgiving Day, the traditional opening date for Christmas shoppers, hundreds of counters already had that picked-over look. Now, every day, from the halls of Bullock's-Wilshire to the floors of Marshall Field's, surging regiments of customers joined in the nation's greatest early-season buying spree...