Word: paid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heroism plus skill, 1929 was undoubtedly Richard Evelyn Byrd's in the popular mind, just as 1927 was Charles Augustus Lindbergh's. Through their Congress the citizens paid acknowledgment by raising Byrd from Commander to Rear-Admiral, an act unprecedented since Robert Edwin Peary discovered the North Pole.† But air-minded citizens might dispute Admiral Byrd's preëminence by bringing in Pilot Bernt Balchen, who actually flew the Byrd ship to the South Pole, or by pointing to Endurance Flyers Dale ("Red") Jackson and Forest O'Brien who kept the St. Louis Robin...
...knows, the U. S. had sued Senator Couzens for $10,000,000 as unpaid taxes on his profits from the sale of his Ford Motor Co. stock, had not only lost its case but had been ordered to return to the Senator $989,883 in taxes he had already paid...