Word: payed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year the resentments of the well-to-do are fueled by a $60 million slump in exports (caused mostly by the drop in commodity prices) and new import duties to pay for Trujillo's $5,000,000 arms purchases abroad. But few are willing to jump from passive opposition to active rebellion by joining Trinitaria at home or one of the exile groups abroad. They fear now that revolution might lead to Castro-style measures against themselves...
...Boston newsboy who beat his way out of the slums by chasing a rapid dollar with indiscriminate energy. Salesman, shopkeeper, restaurantman, driving instructor, art-theater owner-Levine tried them all. Then he drifted into movie distributing, and his talent for what he calls the "big, big sell" began to pay off. It is a talent for recognizing the odd and often awful stuff that the public can stomach, buying it, and then peddling it behind a rolling barrage of ads and publicity gimmicks that have often cost more than half a million dollars...
...graduating class, who were impatient for "earlier responsibilities'' and "more interested in starting opportunities than starting salaries," he decided early in the year to organize a class-run hunt for jobs in business-small business. Eager second-year students put up $15 apiece to help pay the expenses of six classmates, whom they dispatched during the Christmas holiday on prospecting tours of California, the Middle West, the Southwest, the New York City area, upper New York State and southern New England...
...shrewd, hearty Canadian named Roy Thomson last week. "Have you ever heard of anything bigger?" Few had: Roy Thomson, 65, already owner of 27 papers in Canada, seven in the U.S. and nine in Scotland (plus TV stations on both sides of the Atlantic), had just agreed to pay $14 million for most of Britain's great Kemsley chain, including twelve provincial papers and three Sunday nationals, one of them the Sunday Times.* Combined circulation of Thomson's acquisitions : 14 million...
...than on the Steelworkers themselves, tramping the streets just as it was announced that the nation's employment had hit an alltime high. Many workers faced out-and-out hardship, but most had a nest egg and meat in the freezer. Workers got one to two weeks' pay before the mills closed (average: $125 a week before deductions ). still have another two to three weeks' vacation wages coming. Dave McDonald halted the pay of 1,000 union officers, including his own $50,000 a year, for the duration of the strike...