Word: payoff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That was the rallying cry chalked up on every blackboard in Dillon Field House yesterday as the varsity set itself for what has always been the payoff week in Harvard football...
...Texas Payoff. After nearly 18 months of negotiations, Monsanto Chemical Co. and the Oil Insurance Association of Chicago finally reached an agreement on the company's claims for its plant & equipment losses in the great Texas City explosion (TIME, April 28, 1947). Total indemnity: $17,312,000, the biggest single insurance payment in history, according to Monsanto...
...comes every four years, and so do presidential elections. So, too, comes the traditional CRIMSON sponsored straw vote of the University on presidential candidates. The poll will once more hit the Cambridge scene late this month giving students and Faculty a chance to indicate their favorite before the November payoff...
...Plant Payoff. Henry Kaiser, who still owes the Government $100 million for his Fontana steel plant, thought he saw a way to pay off the debt: he hiked his prices an average of $30 a ton (on top of the $9-plus increase which he and other steelmakers had just posted). Kenneth Norris, chairman of the Western States Council, .called it "a knockout blow ... by the man who talked so loud about what he was going to do to build Western industry...
...Just before the payoff in Philadelphia, some brave experts made their final prophecies. Of 815 newspaper editors polled by the U.S. News, 417 expected Senator Arthur Vandenberg to get the nomination, 271 hoped he would. Jim Farley predicted "a deadlock between Dewey and Taft. If they get together, one of them will be the nominee. If they don't, you'll see Vandenberg in there...