Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your story Florida, TIME, Feb. 19, you paid nice tribute to Carl Fisher's imagination and to his love of the music of the sand sucker...
...employed under the Act. At that time less than 3,000 men were mining silver; by 1937 only 56,000 were engaged in all gold & silver mining, only 118,000 in all U. S. metal mining. Silver is almost wholly a mining byproduct. The domestic subsidy has therefore merely paid overhead on many a mine, allowed it to keep open for the profitable production of copper, lead, zinc. Economists, who traditionally agree on nothing, to a man denounce the silver subsidy...
...Nautilus Villa, the rate he paid was $12.50 a day, meals included. The Government allows him $5 a day traveling expenses. He paid the rest out of his own pocket...
Nothing succeeds quite like a Broadway success; but when playwrights really clean up it is by selling their smash hits to Hollywood. In 1939 Hollywood paid almost $1,000,000 for 17 Broadway plays. In the first two months of 1940 it paid about half that for five. But though plays are selling faster and for generally higher prices this year than last, most of Broadway's fanciest merchandise is still on the counter...
...annual stockholders' meeting next month carried the news that Lewis D. ("Gadfly") Gilbert was out for trouble again. Specializing in heckling the management of the 60-odd companies a tiny bit of whose stock he holds, Capitalist Gilbert was all set with a resolution drastically cutting the bonuses paid to President George Washington Hill and his high-powered vice presidents...