Word: earn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Random House printed 100,000 copies. The Book-of-the-Month Club took the book for August, printed 340,000 copies more. All told, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is expected to earn for its authors around a quarter of a million dollars...
However, these two facts, while true in themselves, do not justify any back-handed diatribes about the Harvard that was. Between the tremendous scholarship funds, the House system, and the will to be at Harvard that made many students earn enough money to pay for their own education, this was one of the most democratic colleges in the country, if not the most democratic...
...President's astonishing statistics: four million workers still earn less than 40? an hour, while the income of over four million families has increased less than 5% in the last 18 months...
...before (TIME, June 14). Its pressure last week forced the resignation of Pierre Boisson, the ex-Vichyite Governor General of French West Africa, who had been stubbornly supported by the U.S. If U.S. policy continues to ignore the fact and the strength of De Gaullism, the U.S. may well earn the enmity of renascent France and Europe...
Privates and noncoms captured by the U.S. get a basic allowance of 10 ? a day and can earn 80? a day by working at such jobs as fanning, road building, forestry and flood control. Unlike their officers, they can be required to work, although not at any task directly connected with military operations. Twenty-two prison camps scattered about the U.S. now hold 36,688 Axis captives-22,110 stiff-necked Germans; 14,516 resigned Italians; 62 crestfallen Japanese...