Word: earn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these preparations may have been solely defensive. Occupation of Spain by Hitler would entail a heavy risk. The adventure would probably require 25 divisions. The Iberian Peninsula would earn Hitler some 1,800 miles of vulnerable coastline. Since most Spanish railways are broad gauge and already taxed for internal needs, it would give Hitler a logistical headache. But above all, it would disperse his forces to duplicate a job already being done at the Tunisia-Sicily bottleneck...
Britain's catering industry employs 500,000 workers, who put in 7 2-hour weeks and earn as little as $10 per month. Said Bevin: "I need [the bill] for the war ... in the interests of public morale. ... I need it for the transition period. . . . Our people have had no holiday, no rest, no recuperation since the war broke out. ... I need it for the postwar period to [help] solve mass unemployment ... it is a bill small in character but great in potentialities...
...airlines did their biggest job in history, it was the airmail division of the Post Office which collected over half the ante. The division's reported profit for fiscal 1942, after deduction of its own direct expenses, was a record $8 million-more than half the total net earnings of all 18 U.S. domestic airlines. Next year the division will probably earn a cool $22 million or perhaps better, thanks mostly to an ace in the hole: Though it will slash rates paid to the airlines, it will probably maintain the present 6? airmail letter rate to U.S. citizens...
According to OPA's economist Richard V. Gilbert, known for his studies in national income analysis, and an all-out advocate of peacetime Government spending, the U.S. rails should not be allowed to earn over 3% on money invested in the railroads, since investors in U.S. Government bonds get no more than that. Carried to its logical conclusion, this argument implies that investors in private industrial enterprises run no more risks than investors in war bonds, or conversely, that U.S. Government credit is no stronger than that of the railroads which in times past have gone through a bankruptcy...
...reward will continue to be based on how skilled they become. ... If we can work out the ways to keep production going on an equally high level after the fighting ends, every family can enjoy a comfortable income, even though there continue to be wide differences between what is earned by skilled professional men, or inventors, or daring business men, and what average workers earn...