Word: payments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combine of Genoese financiers forked over 100 million lire down-payment for a nine-year gambling concession, agreed to build a casino and put up a 100-room hotel...
...frequently barked an alarm at war contract settlements; he believes that "everybody and his brother were out to get the Government during the lush war years." Last week, Watchdog Warren showed some real bite. In a report to Congress on war contract settlements, he accused federal agencies of "improper payment of many millions of dollars of public funds through fraud, collusion, ignorance, inadvertence or overliberality...
...large extent, Hugh Scott, an agreeable, pipe-smoking Philadelphia lawyer, was a belated casualty of last November's election. Hand-picked by Candidate Tom Dewey last summer in payment for Pennsylvania's timely convention support, he had served out the campaign as a sort of front man for Dewey's own strategy board (after the election, he not only admitted this fact, but advertised it). When the Dewey strategists vanished from sight, Chairman Scott was still standing there, pipe in hand, a patient smile on his face, and looking as if this was nothing compared to what...
Soldiers at nearby Fort Belvoir were already excited over the house. Woods had said that he would build 42 altogether, and sell them for $40 to $45 per month with no down payment...
Perish to Death. A Kentucky Baptist preacher's son, Channing Cope went to sea at 15 and didn't get his shore legs back until he was 26; later he was by turns pressagent, lawyer, radio broadcaster and farmer. When Cope put down his first payment on rundown, worn-out Yellow River Farm in 1927, the county agent predicted that he would "perish to death" before he got a living out of it; now, with hired hands doing the work, Cope nets $11,000 a year...