Word: earn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remarkable thoroughbreds of the U.S. turf. Son of a castoff mare named Sweetheart Time and a stallion that had been sold without pedigree at the Lexington stockyards, he was reared in a small grassless paddock behind the Latonia race track. His owner, the track superintendent, sent him out to earn his oats in cheap claiming races.* The biggest purse he ever won was $5,000. Nevertheless, when his name was finally scratched last week, Mucho Gusto's record read: 63 victories in 215 starts; earnings...
...again. Mudholes were drying up. Allied planes once more were in the air over Rommel's thinning columns, over El Agheila and over Tripoli. The question still was whether he could organize his haggard, battered Afrika Korps for a stand at the El Agheila bottleneck. Rommel might yet earn even more distinction...
...earn tax plan is the only answer yet proposed for this impasse. Yet the U.S. is still only talking about such a plan. First suggested by Beardsley Ruml (New York Federal Reserve Bank chairman and R. H. Macy treasurer-TIME, Aug. 10), it ran into a barrage of criticism from a jealous Treasury. The Treasury objected to the fact that Mr. Ruml's idea involved "forgiving" 1941 taxes, which would admittedly have given a break to big earners in 1941 who were small earners in 1942. (Among the beneficiaries would have been the Treasury's No. 1 Congressional...
Although Harlow used only six substitutes in the Brown game, because of the excess cold, a condition which facilitates injuries, he will probably throw in a pack of subs if the occasion warrants it on Saturday, so the boys can earn their letters...
...salary ceiling was raising hob with high-priced stars, directors, writers, producers. At week's end the Treasury Department modified its rules so that movie colonists can earn more in 1942 than in 1941 provided their contracts so specify. But in 1943 no cinestar can earn more than $25,000 net-a figure many of them once got for a single picture. Plain & simple out: lower salaries...