Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...include Hawaii and Puerto Rico in the U. S., a sharp rebuke. It is quite true that the U.S.collects some $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 more in sugar taxes than it pays out in benefits; true also that the tax of about ½? a lb. is originally paid by processors. But after deducting about $47,000,000 net revenue to the Government from sugar taxes and duty, U. S. consumers pay, according to Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, between $215,000,000 and $250,000,000 extra each year for their sugar (at current prices) in order to support...
...Film Service never asked Congress for spending money. In March the Labor-Federal Security Appropriation Bill came before the House of Representatives. Its total of $1,021,639,700 contained an item requesting $106,400 to continue the U. S. Film Service after June 30. Before they paid out, legislators proposed to find out what they were paying for. They learned that...
...Hicks and Camac and Panama Streets) went G. 0. P. workers with sour faces, empty pockets. For the first time in many a heeler's memory not one dollar had come from headquarters to pay the watchers & "workers" at the polls. Even the sample ballots had not been paid for; one ward leader had to meet a $117 printing bill himself...
...week the Moneywasters gave a dance. As usual, they did things up brown. This time they had Maestro Walter Barnes of Chicago and his Royal Creolians. Tickets in advance were 50?; on the spot, 65?. Negroes flocked to Natchez from Vicksburg, Centreville, Vidalia, Baton Rouge, even from New Orleans. Paid admissions: 557. The night was warm. Only way into the building was the front door; the Moneywasters had boarded the windows against peepers and gate-crashers. Tobacco smoke fogged the hall. Under the grey, dry Spanish moss which hung two feet above the dancers, the crowd on the floor yelled...
Screams woke the Rev. Edward Doherty, assistant pastor of the only Catholic church for Negroes in Natchez, who lives near the hall. Because "Negro women having a good time in the club frequently screamed like that," he paid no attention at first, arrived belatedly in time to give general absolution. Thirty-two of his parishioners died...