Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...argument is unAmerican. It is an economic tenet of democracy that the free laborer produces more than the slave-laborer. If highly paid labor does not produce even more in proportion to its higher standard than subsistence labor, then democracy has not been economically feasible...
...answer might have been found in an editorial in the Scripps-Howard El Paso Herald-Post, which had said accusingly: "John Garner has not been aiding in the struggle to make the nation secure-the nation which in the last 40 years has honored him with high position and paid him and his wife-secretary $500,000 for their services. . . . He has sulked among his goats. It is not of record, however, that John Garner has refused the $2,500 in salary to which he is entitled, but has not earned. For 40 years the taxpayers have trained John Garner...
...shiny new super-highway the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania paid not one cent. The Turnpike Commission, appointed by Democratic Governor George Earle, got $29,250,000 from PWA, and a $40,800,000 loan from RFC. Tough, driving, sixtyish Walter Adelbert Jones, commission chairman, set a construction deadline at July 1, 1940 (to get the PWA grant), sent "cats" and bulldozers racing over Appalachian slopes like Nazi tanks in the Ardennes, ordered concrete flushed over roadbeds that had been given scarcely the winter to settle. The road was completed in 21 months. There was no fanfare this week as the Pennsylvania...
...Slavic department is concerned, the University is losing on the deal. The bulk of Simmons' work was in the English department, and for their share of his time the Slavic department annually footed a bill of about eight hundred dollars. And presumably Professor Lednicki will get paid at least three times this amount...
...twelve percent is the largest dividend ever paid by the Coop, and the exceptionally high rate is due to a very successful business year, said Cole. The Society has been paying dividends of eight and ten percent for the past fifteen years, except for 1933 and 1934, when the rate was only seven and nine percent...