Word: earn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Officials of Puget Sound Pulp hope to learn and earn enough from their exciting war baby to buy it from DPC after the war. Progressive Bellinghamites, envisioning a plant that may turn out anything from hair tonic to gin, as waste-pulp possibilities are explored, feel the plant may be the luck of their one-industry town, and a white hope of the whole Northwest...
...York's East Side tingel tangels (German beer halls) and tried to make themselves agreeable to burlesque headliners, variety artists and minstrels. Today 540 of them throughout the U.S. pay dues to a union (the A.F. of L.'s Music Publishers' Contact Employees) and earn from $150 to $1,000 a week. With a trade jargon all their own, they classify themselves as "payolas" (the affluent and gift-bearing), "car men" (those with limousines to transport bandleaders) and "sitters" (who operate exclusively in night clubs). The "weepers," who are. looked on with contempt by their colleagues, appeal...
These initial irritations were probably not so serious as they seemed. In a speech asserting the principle of French equality last fortnight (TIME, Feb. 19), De Gaulle himself reminded the French people that they still have to earn the right to actual equality. All concerned faced the same hard facts: France cannot recover without Big Three help; the Big Three cannot run liberated Europe and postwar Germany without a resurgent, reasonably satisfied France...
Turbulent and clear in its headwaters, the Missouri changes its character after its junction with the turbid waters of the Yellowstone, changes again as it meanders through the prairies to earn its nickname of "Big Muddy" and empty at last into the Mississippi ten miles above St. Louis. The longest U.S. river (2,470 miles), it is also one of the most dangerous in flood. Forever seeking its lost channel (it once flowed north to Hudson Bay), the Missouri is also the hungriest of U.S. rivers, with a yearly menu of "ten thousand acres of good rich farming land, several...
...Help Singing (Universal) cost $2,500,000 to produce, has a Jerome Kern score, throstle-throated Deanna Durbin, and the evident fine intention of turning out a cinemusical as full of sunlit Americana as Oklahoma!. As such it deserves a pleasant fate, and may earn it at the box office. But it can hardly fare well with critics, even the most generous...