Word: payments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, in approving ECA, Congress had authorized $15 million to keep this weapon in action. The money would be used to swap currencies. In selling copies to foreign customers, U.S. publications take foreign money in payment. Part of this currency is blocked; little of it can be used by publishers to pay their expenses. By trading the foreign currencies to the U.S. Government for dollars, publishers could meet their expenses. No subsidy had been asked or offered: no publisher would make a profit out of the exchange...
...Beach one gallant telegraphed: "Do nothing till you hear from me. Might go as high as 12 or 13Gs." Then a man from Lexington, Ky. burned up the long distance wires, begging Dorothy to hold off until he could get up to Valley Stream. He telegraphed a $100 down payment. Dorothy described him as a horse breeder named Arthur Howard, said he was a boyish 42 and almost six feet tall. "He's got oodles of do-re-mi,'' she added softly...
...million dollars plus percentages; Born Yesterday to Columbia for a million flat; Annie Get Your Gun to M-G-M for $650,000. But only one of 1947-48's plays went for anything worth noting: Command Decision to M-G-M for a $100,000 down payment...
...loves her work so much that for seven years, six nights a week, she has done it without pay. She finds payment enough in "the chance to use every ounce of creative energy that I have." That energy bubbles through about 50 musical skits (written by Turnabout's Forman Brown); in some of them Elsa rivals Bea Lillie at her best...
Graham felt certain that the loss of the $160 would not seriously harm the Red Book's operations this year, and Miles I. Levine '51, Business Manager, backed him in this assumption. "All we would really lose is the $60 cash," Levine explained, "as we have had payment cancelled on all the checks...