Word: paid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tacitly admitted that his opening day attendance figure of 605,000 was loaded. (Corrected figure: 222,704 paid admissions, 38,938 passes. Error...
...products" phrase of the authority had been used, and it was a politically agile move, since nobody has damned the New Deal, particularly its Wage & Hour Bill, harder than Southern textile men. He now announced that, beginning July 27, every person who exports U. S. cotton will be paid a subsidy of 1.5? per lb., and every exporter of cotton goods will get from 1? to 2.1? according to classification...
...manning pails of slops at upstairs windows, 70,000 embattled striking families are currently prepared to fight eviction. In the case of tenancies covered by the Rent Acts, passed during the War to prevent profiteering, the strikers sometimes have a good legal case and have even recovered back rent paid in excess of the law. More often the strike is completely illegal, but that does not make the landlords much happier. Last month when 83 police smashed through a strikers' barricade in Stepney, East End London borough, and evicted five families, Tenant Defence detachments promptly reinstated them. Boasts Father...
...Clews, through the great gate of the Chateau de la Napoule, to the carved and vaulted mausoleum within. They went to pay their respects to their benefactor, buried just two years. Four thousand miles away, in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, some of Henry Clews's countrymen also paid their respects, by viewing a memorial exhibition of his sculpture...
Responding to the Head Man's fillip, the groggy Fair perked up last week end to produce the largest Saturday crowd to date; 256,253 paid admissions. 55,247 passes. Led by New York City's violent little Mayor LaGuardia, over 70% of the visitors used the $1 bargain tickets...