Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...check was Lustron's payment to Joe McCarthy for a plunge into letters-a 10,000-word article on housing legislation written during Republican McCarthy's term as vice chairman of the 80th Congress' joint Housing Committee. It was paid out at a time when Lustron, now bankrupt and $37.5 million in debt to RFC (see BUSINESS), was just beginning its long and rich ride on the U.S. taxpayers' back...
...organization which advocates the overthrow of the government by force or violence and that I have no commitments in conflict with my responsibilities with respect to impartial scholarship and free pursuit of truth. I understand that the foregoing statement is a condition of my employment and a consideration of payment of my salary...
...over in the corner and ask God to send us a paperhanger and while we were praying a man came into the mission. It was a storefront, and seeing we were doing repair work he thought we might need someone, as he was a paper-hanger." In lieu of payment for the paperhanging job, Hance worked out a reconciliation between the paperhanger and his estranged wife...
Without spending a nickel, the Pennsylvania Railroad made a deal for 10,000 new freight cars last week, the biggest order placed with car builders* in 25 years. The $55 million bill (80% down payment) will be paid by the Equitable Life Assurance Society (see below), which will rent the cars to the Pennsy for 15 years, on a sliding scale running from $1.50 down to $1 a day. This is the fourth rail equipment purchase Equitable has arranged since President Thomas I. Parkinson launched its plan eight weeks ago (TIME, April 10) to 1) put its idle funds...
Footloose. In New Haven, Conn., a recently divorced man called the probation office to say he would not be downtown to make his weekly alimony payment, because: "My wife took my shoes...