Word: paid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...persons swarm to & fro, was the biggest audience in captivity. The temptation was irresistible. Grand Central expanded its public address system into a small broadcasting studio, laid in a supply of canned music, syrupy-voiced announcers and loudspeakers (82 of them), and went into business. Advertisers eagerly paid $1,800 a week for the privilege of spraying music and shouting the merits of their beer, cough drops, cigarettes, chewing gum and automobiles at defenseless travelers...
...soul away from the gospel of hate. When a party delegation called on Comrade Duval and asked him to sign a statement denouncing the "bourgeois" who had helped him, he flatly refused. His wife told the Reds: "We have been living here for years and you have never paid attention to us or done anything for us. And you come only now when somebody else is trying to help...