Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...issue dated June 17, 1929, TIME printed a small ad that made a large offer: for $60, a reader could purchase a subscription that would last "to the end of TIME." In a year when an office worker might earn only $20 a week, spending $60 for a newsmagazine just six years old was a bold investment. Nevertheless, nearly 200 readers-from places as diverse as Myitkyina, Burma and Goose Creek, Texas-bet on the future of TIME...
...orange peels from Sunkist and ships them to Tokyo to be used in making marmalade, soy sauce and whisky. Katsumi Sato, the Japanese-American owner of Rexton, investigated the budding Japanese market for orange peels last year, liked what he saw and went into the business. Sato expects to earn close to $250,000 next year. He is looking into two other exports for Japan: shark fins for soup and jackets from the Los Angeles Police Department, popular with teenagers...
...unfamiliar to the cosmetics trade. It is a lingo of inventory control, strict manufacturing standards and tight, detailed budgets. The payoff: sales and profits have multiplied about 2% times during his four years as boss, growing more than twice as fast as the industry average. This year Revlon will earn about $125 million on sales of $1.5 billion. It will become the first company ever to sell $1 billion worth of beauty products through retail stores...
...errand boy (Harry Hamlin), affronted by a contender, knocks him out with a single punch and is induced to abandon his quest for a night-school law degree in order to enter the square circle (about the only cliche not to be heard in the script), in order to earn money for an operation to save his sister's eyesight. "You'll be on the next train to Vienna,'' he tells her, his dimness about geography matching his dimness about the fast women and corrupting mobsters he meets on his rise to the top. Aided...
...later, Doonesbury's Joanie Caucus. Women in the Comics (Chelsea House; 229 pages; $15) follows them all and includes parallel histories of women in the real world. Author Maurice Horn is a bit too inclusive: Playboy's Little Annie Fanny and bizarre S-M panels from Europe earn this great compendium an R rating...