Word: earn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barnes studied art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, later at Manhattan's Art Students' League. She started to earn her living on the Brooklyn Eagle as an illustrator and reporter. For the New York Press she covered "Gyp the Blood." For the World she did "stunt" stories, including being hugged by a New York gorilla, being forcibly fed in order to tell what it felt like. For McCall's Magazine she went (o Europe, interviewed the American-born Duchess of Marlborough in her fabulous Blenheim Palace. Said the Duchess: "This may be a palace, but there...
...Much Money. Equally important, however, are certain other basic causes which union leaders do not like to face. Most important is that employers are now dealing with a seller's market in which labor commands wages far above peacetime levels. Thus some men can earn in four days what they used to make in six. Absenteeism is notoriously high right after payday, and the absenteeism-line (see chart, p. 75) has risen with weekly earnings. The cause of rising earnings is not rate increases alone but also overtime pay gained through the action of the 40-hour-week...
Some believe in a continuing policy of universal price controls, reinforced by an ever widening system of rationing. But if drastic rationing is pursued, absenteeism will almost certainly increase. For under indiscriminate rationing of luxury, as well as essential, goods, all workers share alike, no matter what they earn. The more likely alternative is that universal price ceilings will give, and a controlled inflation will take place. This would penalize many a loyal worker, but it would at least maintain incentives for every man to work hard in the knowledge that he could use his money to bid for such...
...year of World War II put enough American fighters into action to earn for them more than 3.838 medals.* Army heroes won 2,298; the Navy's, 1,388; Marines, 147; Coast Guard, 5. Most decorated: the Navy's Lieut. Commander John Bulkeley, 5; the Army's Lieut. Colonel Felix Hardison...
Should bright youngsters who have finished junior year in high school be allowed to skip into college, earn both a high-school diploma and a year of college credits at the same time? This plan was recommended last fortnight by a joint committee of the National Education Association and the American Association of School Administrators. The committee predicted, its widespread adoption by next autumn...