Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Both Allied and German trade missions have been wooing Italy for weeks. The French, for instance, ordered Italian blankets. They paid for them even though the purchasing officer found he could stick his hand through them. A smarter French trick was to buy up all of Italy's spare locomotives-just to keep Germany from getting them. Great Britain has allowed Italian freighters loaded with German coal to proceed from Hamburg through the blockade, but only because it was hoped that the coal would keep Italian factories going,which in turn would produce goods for the Allies...
After World War I Britain's railways presented their Government with a whopping $300,000,000 bill for rent and dam ages, which the Government paid under protest. This time the Government wanted nothing like that, and on Sept. 1 it simply took control of all railway transportation in the British Isles. Since then stockholders have waited anxiously to find out how much profit the Government would allow them...
...long as Mexico has had elections it has had pistoleros ("gunmen"). These bravos are sometimes paid, and sometimes just appoint themselves, to "support" respective candidates for office. During political off-seasons they keep in training by provoking purely private, local brawls, but let a close election loom and they emerge in force to strut around bars, clank their spurs haughtily and utter elegant insults at other candidates' pistoleros. Some pistoleros have strong political ideals. A lot of them get their bravado from tequila...
...Freiheit, Manhattan's Yiddish Communist paper, Bill Gropper does a daily cartoon, gets paid when the Freiheit can afford it. Without pay he cheerfully draws for the New Masses, the Sunday Worker. He makes his living free-lancing for capitalist publications, from Vogue to FORTUNE, painting murals for bars, hotels, Government buildings. His conservative employers run no risk of embarrassment. "To paint a mural that doesn't fit the place would be like painting swastikas in a synagogue," observes Artist Gropper. "If I were to paint a proletarian scene in a post office, Farley would jump...
Badly needing U.S. heavy machinery, machine tools, molybdenum, steel sheets, etc. Russia has been regarded as a good customer by U.S. exporters, has paid them $566,000,000 (mostly cash on the line) in the last ten years. Henry Ford alone has made $20,000,000 of sales to Russia, including the dies and stampings of his old Model A. Russia sells less to the U. S. (furs, manganese, platinum), has a large "unfavorable" trade balance, readily cancelable by gold, of which she mined around $200,000,000 worth last year. But by last week Russian business was shocking...