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Word: payment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Doublemint" is costing the Wrigley company almost $2,000,000. Back in 1911 the L. P. Larson gum company, claiming prior rights to the word "Doublemint," sued Wrigley for its use of this brand name. After a -year battle, Wrigley Gum and Larson Gum have settled the quarrel by payment of $1,900,000 to the Larson company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Index: Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...annual cost for monitor service shows a variation from year to year. Records for 1926-27 witness that year to have been the most expensive during the last five. During the two terms of that year $3053.80 was expended in payment of montors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Books for Last Five Years Cost $6898.96; Monitor Service $12,382.83--Area of Blue Books a Square Mile | 11/28/1928 | See Source »

...perhaps be a little startled by the apparent expense involved in the advice therein offered. The expense, however, is only apparent. No one ever thinks of paying his tailor out of his allowance. The correct thing is to let the bill run, and not pay it at all, --payment encourages impudence: but if the tradesman grows clamorous and threatens jail, all you have to do is to plead minority, and let your parents and guardians settle the matter at their convenience

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Men of 53 Years Ago Reckoned by Contemporary as Too Well Dressed--Crimson Sets Styles for Freshmen | 11/28/1928 | See Source »

...judges for the second case, concerning closed payment on a certified check, are Honorable C.F. Stearns L '93. Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, Honorable J.A. Lowell '91. United States district judge for Massachusetts, and Honorable A.W. Johnson. United States District Judge for Pennsylvania. The clubs arguing the case are the Cardoza Club, represented by Harry Brown 3L and Logan Fulrath 3L versus the Pollock-Choate Club, represented by H.F. Blumenberg 3L and S.W. Livingston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 11/14/1928 | See Source »

Died. William Hamlin Childs, 71, cleansing powder tycoon (Bon Ami) of Brooklyn, N. Y.; of acute appendicitis; in Manhattan. Mr. Childs casually accepted a formula in part payment of a debt, developed Bon Ami from it. Experts recalled that Lydia Pinkham's formula was accepted by the lady as part payment also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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