Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first written. There was never any intention of deception: the story lies quite outside my main body of writing. I certainly made a serious mistake in not checking the Lawrence story to make sure I had cut out these passages. And the CRIMSON has certainly exacted full payment for this mistake...
...British government has the right in wartime to take over all inventions without payment. After the war, it pays off. Some of the ministries, on their own responsibilities, grant payments to inventors whose claims are clear. In this way Sir Frank Whittle got ?100,000 for his jet engine work. He did not even apply for payment...
...empire. As the Knights of Rhodes, an island they captured in 1309, they spent two centuries fighting Turkish pirates and raiding Turkish towns. Driven out of Rhodes at last by Suleiman II, they were granted the sovereignty of Malta by the Emperor Charles V, in exchange for a token payment of a falcon a year. Promptly they resumed their sea-raiding as the Knights of Malta. And lords of Malta they remained until 1798, when their own grand master treacherously handed the island to Napoleon. The English, who soon captured it from the French, never allowed the knights to come...
...angry! Re the payment of ransom for the release of our flyers [TIME, Dec. 31], let me quote: "Millions for defense, but not a cent for tribute...
...carried the stock on its books at $11 a share, it made a $10.7 million book profit on the deal. But Central States never got the profit. Williams took 68,423 North American shares of his own, transferred them to Central States. Then he transferred Blue Ridge's payment to companies owned 100% by him and which, Judge Weinfeld ruled, were, in effect, "his pockets." Later, the court noted, Williams had all of his companies destroy every record of his personal transactions, added: "Williams violated his fiduciary obligations to the corporation...