Word: repaid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Milwaukee's Nunn-Bush Shoe Company set up a "52-pay-checks-each-year" plan at small expense. It has been handsomely repaid in increased worker efficiency. It now boasts that its 900 workers covered by the plan are shoe indus try's highest paid. Estimated income (excluding supervisors) last year...
...million from land-grant sales, returned $40 million in lower freight rates to the Government in 1943 alone. Last week railroaders breathed a hopeful sigh as the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee reported out the Boren bill. Based on the premise that the roads have now repaid their subsidy in full, it would put an end to the system of Government rebates...
...work. He became simply, on a lifelong, international, and really magnificent scale, the man who came to dinner." Always ready to help the children with their lessons or admire a housewife's new quilt pattern, he was taken in by families all over New England. He repaid hospitality liberally by dispensing "spirit prescriptions" to the ailing and smelling out long-lost relatives and title deeds...
...recording the sound waves that came back to their earphones, its area and oil content are still unknown. Until the Cottingham came in on the east flank of the basin, Anadarko produced little but "dry hole money"-the cash that oil companies advance to an enterprising wildcatter, to be repaid in oil or nothing...
...Marauders got their food (mostly iron rations) from the air-it was dropped by Tenth Air Force planes. They slept on the ground, each man under two blankets and a poncho, pestered by continuous rains and leeches. Last week they were repaid for all their discomforts, all their meticulous training: the stunned Japs were completely surprised to find U.S. troops throwing a road block across their only supply line in the Hukawng Valley...