Word: payments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...textbook profits, drew plans for his building. For 15 years he said nothing to his colleagues about his plans. Then one day in 1928 he walked into the office of Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur, laid $5,000 in securities on his desk as the first payment toward a fund for erecting the building. Each year for the next four years he added...
...frustration" tests used last year involved the use of a savings bank. For three days the trusting subject was given a quarter in payment for drawing a picture, a quarter which was to be deposited in the bank. On the fourth day a key was substituted for the quarter, but when the child opened the bank with it, the other three quarters had gone...
...have certain trade interests there ourselves and we need to maintain those interests. In that respect, we shall have the good will of the countries themselves because although it is true that their international market will be found chiefly in Germany, nevertheless they can as a rule only obtain payment from Germany either in the form of goods, by barter arrangements or by blocked marks...
...Hanson's theory was a simple reductio ad absurdum with which neither publishers, Guild nor common practice agree. The Act sets 44 hours as the maximum work week, requires overtime payment at one and one-half times the regular salary rate. But out-of-town assignments are part of the normal duties of many a reporter, and while some Guild contracts require twelve hours' pay for each day away from home, any newshawk who tried to collect 24 hours on the same basis would soon be laughed...
...could not have been, for the Stock Exchange by its vice president and chairman of its Gratuity Fund had made the demand and received restitution, had with the approval of its counsel refused a day's delay, and had sought and obtained the assurance of George Whitney that payment and delivery would be made, an assurance which would obviously have been unnecessary if Richard Whitney had not misused the securities...