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Word: unpaid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prodding the Council to action last year was the muddled condition of the '49 Redbook, which found itself with a deficit and a sheaf of unpaid bills almost a year after the announced publication date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Early Council Action Begins '51's Redbook | 7/18/1947 | See Source »

...slash of $20 million for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, which would cut deeply into the staff of enforcement officers. The "fallacy" of such shortsighted penny-pinching and the "gross inadequacy" of the bill, said the President, would be painfully evident in the annual loss of $400 million in unpaid taxes. He thought the "vast majority" of U.S. taxpayers were honest, but he also implied that a chiseling minority could now succeed in evading the law. But, like the rent bill, he indicated, it was a choice between evils. Holding his nose and glaring at Congress, he had signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Holiday in Virginia | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...siding for private cars, luxury suites with a special entrance, and 2,600 employees. But the new Waldorf opened in 1931, in darkest depression, and it lost from $1 to $3 million a year. Boomer staved off bankruptcy by getting the New York Central to forgive much of the unpaid rent. He taught patrons to eat jellied madrilene in cantaloupe, and devised the now universal card-credit system that enabled the guest to get his bill in two minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: He Knew What They Wanted | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

Murray, 42, an ex-Detroit reporter of Scotch-Irish-English-Dutch descent, was swept into his unpaid office in 1941 on a clean-out-the-Reds ticket. During the war, when few unions changed their leadership, there were only muffled rumblings of dissent, chiefly from left-wingers. But this year, with Murray coming up for renomination or rejection in June, volley and thunder have come at him from right as well as left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Thunder, Left & Right | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...course I realize there are some women, cursed with neither intelligence or ambition, who seem to enjoy slopping around in a monotonous condition of unpaid servitude. These, then, are the logical childbearers of the nation-the honored perpetuators of the human race. But for the other freedom-loving females, I say-more and better contraceptives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 7, 1947 | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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