Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...struggling songsmiths and all-important disk jockeys. It was a world where she came to "own" only 75% of herself, with her managers and booking agents owning the other 25%. Above all, it was a world where the click or smash hit was the ultimate goal, where clearance (by payment to publishers' societies ASCAP and BMI) was necessary for permission to play a song on the air; a world where cut-ins (giving a performer a share of a song's profits), hot stoves (open bribes) and other forms of payola were standing operating procedure; a world...
...Unable to control the company because of bad publicity about their past activities (TIME, Oct. 27), the syndicate had tried to sell the stock, but found no takers at anything like the $7 a share it had paid for it. Though it meant abandoning a $1,250,000 down payment and $100,000 in interest, the cheapest way out seemed to be to return the stock to Hughes...
...offered to buy the rubber at prevailing world prices, but the Ceylonese demanded an extra $50 million U.S. aid (in addition to the purchase price) as a condition of the sale. Washington demurred, and Peking closed the deal by increasing its price 40% and offering part-payment in rice. Last week the Polish freighter Mickiewicz sailed from Colombo with 5,600 tons of rubber for delivery to Shanghai. Presumably, a U.S. naval blockade of the Chinese coast would put a stop to the voyages of the Wiima and the Mickiewicz...
Today is the deadline for payment of University term bills which may be paid either at the Harvard Trust Company or Lehman Hall. Late payment will result in a $10 fine and also possible probation...
...least taught me to like my fellow men." But back in Sydney a little later, he was not so sure. One of the first letters he received was a demand for the ?112. He offered to hand over a check for every penny if the act of payment might be photographed by the press. "I thought that as a tale of comradeship in arms it would read well in the dailies. Surprisingly, I received no answer...