Word: payments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quixotic, M. Briez has given 101 quarts of blood during the past five years without accepting so much as a centime in payment. On one occasion he gave a quart of blood each to three separate patients within 24 hours. Recently he underwent 17 transfusions in 31 days...
...plan for industrial peace here to be described has already proven workable. ... P. R. T. (Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.) in 1911 was not financially able to pay its trainmen more than the wage rate theretofore secured through arbitration, and against which the men were in open rebellion. The payment of this rate in 1910 had consumed about 22% of the gross passenger earnings. The new agreement, which we then made, provided that out of every dollar taken in, these men should receive 22 cents, so that as the owners secured advantage by the increased business obtained through joint effort...
...tons of explosives over London. Then came Versailles, and the building of zeppelins for Germany was forbidden. Almost, the great Zeppelin factories were ordered destroyed. Almost, the "zeppelin guild" on Lake Constance was scattered. These things did not take place because the Allies, covetous of reparations, agreed to accept payment in zeppelins...
There remains one finishing touch to make the Student Council Budget a success the prompt payment of the amounts pledged. Once these sums are paid pocket-books may rest content, having discharged both their philanthropic and patriotic duties for the year...
...patched two soldiers in civilian dress to parley with the bandits and assure them that so large a ransom could not be raised for another 24 hours. The soldiers rode out, one carrying over his arm a brakeman's lantern. Though they proceeded to the spot designated for payment of the ransom they saw no bandits...