Word: refunded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back as 1946. CAB says its general investigation of company (TIME, March 18) showed that "for the 1946-53 period alone Pan American's expense, underwritten with subsidy, may have been overstated by as much as $6,500,000." Agency also is pressing Pan Am to refund its $5,936,000 subsidy for Pacific operations...
Price War. In Baltimore, calculating that he had 7? worth of beer left when the barkeep announced closing time, Patrick Duran noisily demanded a refund, refused on principle to accept an offer of 10? in reparations from a policeman who showed up to make peace, responded to another law officer's comment ("For five cents I'll lock you up") by plunking down a nickel, was hauled off to the station...
...approached last week, the Maharajas of Bhopal and Cooch Behar were both busily booking American guests for two-week tiger hunts on their demesnes. The fee of $1,500 single or $2,500 a couple includes martinis every night, a portable flush toilet in every tent, and a 25% refund guaranteed "if a tiger is not brought within shooting distance...
Replying to statements by Chicago businessmen that the tax-free refund allows co-ops to undersell them, Teele claimed that this is not true in the case of the Coop. "We meet competitive prices" of Cambridge businessmen, he said...
...renomination campaign, the governor announced candidly, had cost 25% less than the $40,000 raised for his campaign fund. Each of the 329 contributors, with the exception of himself, his wife and a tiny band of close advisers, would get a 25% refund. Said Hodges after the checks were mailed out: "It occurred to me that this was the only proper thing...