Word: payed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cinema the second rate cabaret where a dance team kept love and ambition alive in spite of the machinations of a master-gunman, has been replaced by a palatial and enormous nightclub with modernistic settings. It does not seem reasonable that the clients of such an establishment would pay to see such inexpert dancing as Glenn Tryon's and Merna Kennedy's. Features of the cops-&-robbers subplot which once seemed original have been used so often in other films that they are stale stuff by now. Best shot: Evelyn Brent in evening clothes...
...Dawes Plan of 1924 fixed the annual sum Germany must pay her creditors (595 million dollars) but left undecided the total sum, or the number of years in which final payment was to be made...
...standard annual payment under the Dawes Plan is 595 millions. The Young Plan reduces this to $487,600,000. Of this amount, Germany must pay unconditionally in cash and deliveries-in-kind about $158,400,000. The rest will be met by the sale of bonds, financed and guaranteed by an international bank of settlement, sold to private individuals in Europe...
...profits from the sale of the bonds and other enterprises of the international bank will be applied to the further reduction of Germany's debt. Germany hopes that after 37 years these profits will pay the balance of her reparations...
...predicament arose when Mr. Ford asked the League's International Labor Office to collect statistics on real wages in various European countries. Mr. Ford wanted to pay workmen in his foreign plants the same real wages that he pays his U. S. workmen. So he asked the Labor Office to determine what wages he should pay Englishmen, Frenchmen, Russians, Germans, so that they should be on equal terms with each other and with U. S. Ford employes...