Word: earn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kentucky Derby all over again. Assault, the clubfooted chestnut that ran away with the Kentucky Derby, was three lengths outin front. Then Elizabeth Arden Graham's slow-starting Lord Boswell came charging up. At the finish, Assault, obviously tiring, was just a neck ahead-enough to earn the $99,120 first prize. On the record, Assault was the best of 1946's three-year-olds, but his Preakness winning time (2:01 2/5) was the slowest in 13 years. Ten years before, Assault's daddy, Bold Venture, won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness-and never another...
Businessmen last week took a deep breath, and looked apprehensively at the first big batch of first quarter earnings. Then they relaxed somewhat. Despite the steel and coal strikes, rising costs and OPA ceilings, many a company had managed to earn a heart-warming amount of folding money. One big reason was that consumer spending for goods and services in the first quarter, according to a Commerce Department estimate, was at the record rate of $120 billion a year (1945 total: $103.6 billion...
...achieved the greatest success a farmer can have: he kept his son on the farm. He did it by letting Dale earn his own money from boyhood on. A few years ago Gus cut Dale in on the hogs. Now they are in partnership, 50-50 on costs and profits. When Dale married, Gus sold him the back 80 and the house on it. This year Dale will finish paying his father the mortgage...
...Gundel's Restaurant in Budapest's Town Park an American could eat a black-market meal of pate de foie gras, venison, wine, salad, and dessert for $1.66. The same meal would cost a dollarless Hungarian six times the best monthly salary any Hungarian could earn today. Hungarians got five ounces of bread daily. City-dwellers jammed trains to scour the countryside for food. . . . In Italy, where one of Europe's lowest bread rations was about to be cut again, Premier Alcide de Gaspari warned: "We are on the eve" of starvation...
...pour down." Next year, to the two courses he now teaches to Harvard and Radcliffe students, he will add English V-the Boylston course in creative writing, limited to 20 select students (among its famed grads: Emerson, Thoreau, John Dos Passos, Walter Lippmann). As a full professor, Spencer will earn $9,600; the Boylston Chair itself pays only in prestige, though legend accords its holder the right to pasture a cow in Harvard Yard...