Word: repaying
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There had been too many holidays recently, and Perón knew it. At least five times in the last three months he had warned workers that he had done his best for them, that they must repay him by producing more. Government statistics told the story. Since 1943 employment had risen 15.9%, wages 121%; but man hours worked had gone up only 8%. Production on farm & factory was down, dollars were scarce, the official cost of living had increased 83%. Perón was the labor leader of Argentina; he had dumped the men who had organized the demonstrations...
...legal murder. When Georgi Dimitroff awaited trial in a Nazi jail, Petkoff was one of a group of Bulgarian political leaders who arranged for Dimitroff's 72-year-old mother, Baba Parashkeva, to visit him. Gratefully she said then: "If my son lives through this, he will repay you a thousand times...
...crux of the matter: Wilson's attempt to reach an accord as to how, and at what rate, Moscow would repay a credit of ?55,000,000, resulting from a wartime agreement hastily made with the Soviet Union in 1941 after Hitler invaded Russia. In that, he had failed-the Russians insisted adamantly on terms which the British could not afford to meet. A reporter asked: "Is the door completely shut?" Replied Wilson: "That's up to the Russians...
...Lucchese prospered, he bought the Zaragoza and other theaters, including one with seats wide enough for two. He also acquired a fortune estimated at "between one and two million" dollars and the desire to repay his debt to the Mexicans. Said Tano Lucchese: "The Mexicans are kicked around too much. I want to give them a center they can call their own. The best of everything...
...hand the U.S. has been spending millions for food and materials to keep Germany going. With the other, its monetary fumbling has resulted in debasing German currency at such a rate that the whole monetary system is ready to collapse. The U.S. had given the Italians $205 million to repay them for the invasion lire which it pumped into their economy and for lire purchased from them. In Germany, where the amount of invasion currency put out was upwards of six times greater, due mainly to the Russians, the U.S. may find it will have to pay out much more...