Word: payments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official state trading agency. A hard-hitting anti-Perón deputy named Agustin Rodriguez Araya had introduced into the record 40 questions that he wanted to ask the Minister of Economy, lAPI's head. A typical question: "What compelling reasons were there for handing over without payment to the majordomo of the presidential country house 20 jeeps which were later found being used by a morning newspaper [Se-ñora Perón's Democracia...
...petitioners had to wait in suspense until the very week before the races. Those who were accepted were mailed a crown-embossed badge of cardboard admitting them to the coveted square of turf upon payment of ?10 for gentlemen, ?7 for ladies. Holders of mere owners' cards (like Rita and Aly Khan and Beautician Elizabeth Arden Graham) sat in boxes overlooking the Royal Enclosure-but that was a long way from being inside it. These underprivileged souls had some crumbs of comfort. Ladies in the Royal Enclosure may not smoke cigarettes and are forbidden to lean across the fence...
...York Herald Tribune story saying that James V. Hunt, a wartime Lieutenant Columbia, had received $1000 as down payment for work he said he would do to get a client a government contract means that Hunt will be the able to see his son graduates from Harvard tomorrow...
...Wings ... In Niagara Falls, the Bell Aircraft Corp. received a letter from an inmate of an Illinois state penitentiary: "How long a warm-up is needed [for a helicopter]? What is the down payment . . .? Will it carry two people...
...pitching area is about nine feet long--three and a half feet of fairly level payment followed by a gradual rise for five and a half feet, at the end of which is a foot-high ledge. Pennies can be ricocheted off this ledge or rolled up to it in any manner. "Leaners" are particularly desirable, although there is always the chance that they'll be caromed away from the ledge by somebody else's toss...