Word: unpaid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrangling spread. Enlistments in the Guard dropped to zero. For six weeks Guardsmen went unpaid. Morale dwindled. At half strength, Guards did double duty. The situation was desperate, said a Guard colonel, "particularly in regard to the San Francisco waterfront and the Golden Gate Bridge...
...left his job as teacher. On the desk of the St. Paul's business manager he dropped a sheaf of unpaid bills, all his money and stocks to meet them. Nine-tenths of the bills were for milk sent to neighboring poor people. He went off to Newport News, crammed 25 hours of air training into three days, went to France...
...Industrial banks. Last year they made an estimated 460,000 loans for taxes, averaging $300. Interest (or discount) and other charges are equivalent to about 12% per year on unpaid balances...
...listening to telephoned reports of aircraft, marking every plane's flight on maps. Their hours were long, their jobs dull, but some day they might be vital to air-raid defense. Some of them were Junior Leaguers, but the majority were stenographers, teachers, young housewives. Boss of these unpaid workers, who slaved without uniforms or froufrou, was the Army...
...boiled over when the Little Flower said that one of Mr. Morgan's unpaid assistants, Mrs. Preston Davie, must go. Eugenie Mary Ladenburg Davie, rich, beauteous, energetic, is no ordinary woman. A onetime leader of the Landon Volunteers, active in the G.O.P., she is vice president of the American Women's Voluntary Services, Inc. Enlisting in Mr. Morgan's department as head of a wartime food-conservation program, big May Davie soon made feathers...