Word: earn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Allen, apparently, entirely sure what he does to earn his $12,000 a year. He has often laughed at what a corporation has bought when it has employed him as a director. Said he recently: "I wouldn't have the slightest idea of where to go to buy an airplane. . . . Hell, I don't even know where [Convair's office] is around here...
...Though I am not conceited," writes Flagg, "I am a vain creature." Whatever he means by the distinction, he has some excuse for vanity. He sold his first drawing (to St. Nicholas magazine) when he was twelve, went on to earn as much as $75,000 a year from his illustrations and posters. His famed "I Want You" poster of Uncle Sam pointing a fiercely demanding finger took millions of civilian eyes in World War I. The sulky-looking, full-bosomed Ideal Woman that he created and developed was seen in all the slick magazines in the flat-chested twenties...
...part the difficulty now was psychological. People did not feel that they had to work so hard as before to earn a living. Labor productivity was down in almost all plants, due in part to strikes and material shortages. The 58,000,000 people working in the U.S. were not turning out any more goods, dollarwise, than 54,000,000 had during the war years...
...basketful of balls to the practice court and worked on her strokes until it was time for school. At 21, she won a scholarship to Florida's tennis-conscious Rollins College, played No. 4 on the men's team and got enough As in the classroom to earn a scholarship in economics at Columbia. She didn't like Manhattan's weather, and quit Columbia after six months. At 23 she was national champion...
India's Moslems last week were as angry as Rustum Beg-so angry that they were renouncing the coveted British titles that many of them had served long and fawningly to earn. Sir Mohamed Saadulla, ex-Premier of Assam Province, one of about 435 Indians and Burmans who now hold knighthoods, was angriest. He could 'hardly talk...