Word: earn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Committee sat down to listen to Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, administrator of the draft. The man charged with the vital task of mobilizing the nation's man power has done a quiet, capable job with the first draft. Young (48), Indiana-born, he once taught school to earn tuition for college. Though his ancestors were Mennonites (who are deeply opposed to war), he joined the National Guard, was sent to the Mexican border in 1916, served in France, returned and passed his examinations for the Regular Army. One of his two sons is at West Point, the other...
Students remaining at college during the Christmas vacation will have an opportunity to earn Federal Air Raid Warden insignia by attending classes to be held at the Rindge Technical School...
...Every war has made profiteers, and many a Washington official is beginning to suspect that World War II will be no exception. The House Naval Affairs Committee planned early hearings on a preliminary report that some shipbuilding companies are earning up to 150% on their investments. The Office of Price Administration, investigating an unnamed defense industry, found that 86 of 88 companies earn 6% or better, half earn 42.6% and up, one earns 112%. Senator David I. Walsh predicted "an awful day of reckoning" when the U.S. public gets the figures...
...Southern Pacific to Chicago. Lightest bottleneck: the two-track Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac, which is the only link between three Southern roads at Richmond and the Northern roads at Washington. Shuttling more than 150 loaded specials to the already crowded Washington gateway in four days, R.F. & P. train crews will earn juicy overtime checks...
...Cracked Fleet: "If I can't earn this measly salary. I'll turn in my suit and take a shower...