Word: earn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this labor away from the coal mines and into other productive industries. Any number of the poorer mines will have to be shut down indefinitely, leaving the coal supply to be drawn from the better class of properties in which, presumably, men working steadily can, at going wages, earn a fair livelihood...
...triangular meet in Mechanics Hall, the Crimson team was able to beat Dartmouth, but succumbed to the all round ability of Cornell's well balanced team. Captain Brown captured first place in the 35-pound weight throw; Burke won the mile race; while Wansker was able to earn five points with a hard fought victory in the 40-yard dash...
...negative. Boston's election shook, its various political scandals, its banking irregularities, are raked out into the sunlight and made to appear typical of Boston's public affairs during the past few years. The police strike, too, is dragged out of the retirement it was beginning to earn, and colored with recent cases of constabulary misdeeds, it is set up as the vane that should have shown which way the wind was blowing several seasons ago. The conclusion reached is an interesting one, and seems logically sound. Boston people are perfectly aware of these conditions; if they not only tolerate...
...salary of about $8000 a year. Unattractive? Financially, yes, if you place against that the $10,000 a year you may expect to make selling, say shoe-strings. But are you sure that you are one of the men who is to make $10,000? A comparatively few men earn that amount. Suppose you sell shoe-strings, what is your world -- shoe-strings -- what do you know -- shoe-strings? On the other hand, in Foreign Trade work, your world is the World and its people. With your foundation properly laid you develop step by step until you are able...
...freight rate reduction at this time, that is absolutely impracticable and impossible. Impracticable because railroads are not earning the 5 1-2 percent rate on their property values as prescribed by law. Impossible, because the Interstate Commerce Commission has not the legal power to order a rate-reduction until the net revenue of the railroads is much in excess of the 5 1-2 percent on their valuation, which the railroads have yet failed to earn. The Transportation Act makes it clearly mandatory upon the Interstate Commerce Commission to prescribe such rates as will pay all operating expenses, including property...