Word: payed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came back recently as acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff while Air Force General Nathan Twining is recuperating from a lung cancer operation. Radford, 63, earns $12,000 a year as a director of the Philco Corp. (electronics), and about the same amount in retirement pay. The amount of influence exercised on Pentagon people, he said, "is very small-but I wouldn't say it doesn't exist." Besides, retired officers probably have less influence than most people think. "They are really out of it once they leave." Best way to avoid string-pulling temptation, Radford...
...Coogan-Huller travel service flourished, added a "travel now-pay later" system for men who looked like good credit risks, experimented with a "group-payment plan" when seven G.I.s promised $185 to get a buddy to Korea. In six months, the red-faced Army admitted last week, Coogan-Huller cleared $1,750 from ten soldiers, in all shipped at least 18 to chosen places abroad, had four customers ready to travel when the word-of-mouth ad campaign reached one ear too many...
...some 100,000 of them -campaigned right through election day. Ministers and imams, grocers and streetcar conductors, they handshook their way right up to the polling boxes, passed out slips of colored paper with their names printed in helpfully large letters. The most conscientious elector (compelled to vote, or pay a $3 fine), retiring to his polling booth with a list of candidates six pages long, had a tough time finding as many as 30 names that he could recognize and mark. It took President Nasser himself four minutes to vote, though the day before he had gone over...
...Njoroge made it the long way around, via Pretoria (B.S. at the University of South Africa) and London, peddling cosmetics and doing odd jobs. In London, broader-minded officials gave him a permit to study in the U.S., but Njoroge had to borrow passage money (he still hopes to pay back the ?60), arrived in the U.S. in the fall of 1951 with just 3?. A fellow passenger lent him taxi money and $1.50 for a Y.M.C.A. room; the Committee on Friendly Relations Among Foreign Students lent him $70 bus fare to get to California. After a succession...
Gratitude is like business credit: it keeps trade brisk, and we pay up, not because it is the honorable thing to do but because it makes it easier to borrow again...