Word: paid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week Stuffy Walters had reason to hope that he could jump into the fountain pool with no beard at all. Barely five years and four months after Knight added the slipping News to his thriving chain,* it had paid off nearly $8,700,000 of its $12,500,000 mortgage, had a commanding lead over Hearst's rival Chicago Herald-American in advertising, and hoped shortly to pass the Hearstpaper in circulation and become Chicago's biggest afternoon paper...
...hurried back to the pound. Said Roeper: Sorry, the dog is dead. Altshul, who knows that dogs run second only to babies as human-interest stories, sent a reporter down to the pound. What he turned up shocked Newsday's 116,000 readers. Dogcatcher Roeper, Newsday reported, gets paid $2 for each dog he catches and $2 more for each one he kills. With this piecework incentive, Roeper had killed 4,158 dogs in Hempstead township (96.8% of those he has caught), and earned more than $16,000 in twelve months...
...This World." Nothing like it had ever happened in baseball before. It was the biggest sum ever paid for an untried player (previous high: an $80,000 bonus peeled out by the Detroit Tigers for Catcher Frank House two years...
...another deal last week, the free-handed Pirates boosted Home-Run King Ralph Kiner's salary to $65,000 a year, making him the National League's highest-paid player...
...back on its feet: he tightened credit, levied heavy taxes, cut government spending to the bone. The course was unpopular in Belgium, and Gutt fell from power. But last week gutty Mr. Gutt, now head of the International Monetary Fund, had his reward. The Fund announced that Belgium had paid in full the $33 million loan borrowed two years ago to build up its dollar reserves. It thus became the first European nation to wipe out its debt to the Fund.* Said one Fund official: "If it weren't for Gutt, Belgium would not be able to repay...