Word: earn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...president, presented the car, told Mr. Billany: "You have humanized the service." Last week the Post Office Department found itself in a bad financial predicament. It was haunted as never before by the old problem of deficits, of the U. S. mails costing more to handle than they earn. Last year, it was announced, the postal service had run 137 million dollars into the red, which President Hoover considered a lamentable showing for the only "business" arm of a Government which its officials, in moments of pride, like to call "the biggest business organization in the world." Promptly President Hoover...
...TIME remain lean and hungry and ever under the necessity of striving to earn its daily bread. Only under such conditions are worth-while things accomplished. Let TIME ask Owen D. Young is he not hungry. Let TIME look...
...next week the inevitable reaction of taking a team too lightly was suffered and Holy Cross, with an exceptional defensive organization was able to earn a scoreless...
...student who comes here and has his way paid by thrifty parents to the extent that he need not work at all outside of school is able to make the Dean's List and live in the highest of bourgeois comfort. But what of the man who must earn his way without the aid from home? He carries one or sometimes two jobs on the side, rushes from his work to his books, and from his books to his exams. He never has an opportunity to allow his studies to ripen in his mind. For four years he is subjected...
...Transportation Act of 1920 specified that carriers could earn 6 per cent on the value of their property as fixed by the I. C. C. All profits above that figure were "recapturable"-half into the carriers' reserve fund, half to an I. C. C. fund for special loans to less profitable roads...