Word: earned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into a limited number of competitive systems, the Commission shall devise a plan for such consolidation, and carriers with the aid of the Commission can acquire the property of other carriers by condemnation proceedings. Until the plan of the Commission is completed, all railways not consolidated must give all earnings in excess of 6% to the Government for distribution pro rata among the roads which earn less than...
...order to get favor with white people, he found one had merely to fight. Accordingly, when the War was over, he started to earn his living in the prize-ring. His naive but effective antics made him a good drawing card, and before long he found himself standing under enormous arc lights in the Velodrome Buffalo in Paris while 50,-000 people shrieked and Georges Carpentier, "Gorgeous Orchid Man," world's light-heavyweight champion, twisted helplessly at his feet...
...white-collared class make a tremendous and tragic mistake when we say that the only reason that a common laborer works is to earn money," declared Whiting Williams, business man who has lived for years as a laborer, at Phillips Brooks House last evening. "There is a spiritual factor: every worker maintains his standing as a man among men by the nature of his job, by his standing as a craftsman among craftsmen, irrespective of the money return "which the job brings...
...ability to leer in a naughty fashion will often earn a witless fellow a reputation as a wag; luck in getting his books suppressed will bring an author to renown even though no one has ever read them. Shrewd Douglas H. Cooke, President of the Leslie-Judge Co., may not therefore have been altogether stunned when he was told last week that his funny-paper, Judge, was barred from the mails...
...first three-quarters of 1925, earnings without subsidiary undivided profits have amounted to $13.27 per share on Motors common stock, or with them, to $14.75. It is therefore probable that Motors will earn this year between $17.50 and $20.00 a share...