Word: pays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought Youth is always told that it should pay great respect to Age and it always does, but inside it usually shrugs or maybe even sneers and if it does have a feeling of respect it is only because of an externally imposed habit and not because of an honest spontaneous sentiment. Usually, perhaps, but that was not so tonight. In these surroundings it was impossible not to feel something like awe for that figure slowly getting up to cut the cake...
Promptly from Mr. Willkie to the news services went an angry reply: Commonwealth & Southern had offered a year ago to pay up to $60 for Consumers stock, said he. Both SEC and the Michigan Public Utilities Commission had ruled that it could buy the stock at book value...
...they understood that big holding company was about to buy 125,000 shares of stock from its Michigan subsidiary, Consumers Power Co. Mr. Eaton righteously set out a plan to disprove Wendell Willkie's chronic complaint that investors will not buy utilities securities: his Otis & Co. would gladly pay a price "substantially in excess" of the $28.25 that C. & S. was going to pay...
...partnership had been artistically. In 1900 he got a best seller, George Ade's More Fables in Slang. Next year he got another in George Barr McCutcheon's Graustark. Year following came the sensational Story of Mary MacLane. Then Publisher Stone decided to cut corners, pay less attention to experimental writers, add cheap reprints, and he published a magazine called The House Beautiful. (The Chap-Book had folded in the Spanish-American War.) Four years later with "nothing of importance coming out," Publisher Stone sold his tottering business to a now-extinct Manhattan publisher...
...Sullivan says our book sales are not sufficient to cover our expenses. This is quite true. Much of our income has been derived from the motion pictures and lectures the Bookshop has sponsored. This is the source of Mr. Sullivan's "Soviet gold." He says we pay too high rent. This is also true, and as a result the Bookshop is going to move at the end of the month to a less expensive location...