Word: earned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London. It has toured the V. S. from coast to coast, played in Paris, Berlin, Rome, London, Vienna. Dividing into sections as the orphans grew older and learned to play better, the Jenkins Band once had live units simultaneously on tour. Today its 125 players, aged 10 to 18, earn from $75,000 to $100,000 a year for the Orphanage. Once girls & boys played together in the bands but, says Daniel Jenkins, "They got too fresh and I had to separate them." Now the girls play in their own bands or sing to the boys' accompaniment. Each band-section...
...strikers had no immediate prospect of personal gain. On the contrary, they walked out on a 50% raise in pay. Under the old FERA set-up a skilled laborer got $60 per month, worked just long enough to earn it at prevailing (i. e. union) wages. Under the new WPA setup, to which New York City relief jobs were shifted last week, the tradesman gets up to $93.50 per month, but must work at least 120 hr. for it. That means an hourly wage well below the prevailing rate...
Since money-hugging French Proletarians scarcely think of how much they work in their concentration on how much they earn, the seamen answered with a roar of "Oui!"', rushed back to their ships which sailed with all speed from Havre, while the French Cabinet announced Depression-busting decrees (see col. 3). General grumbling and unrest in French ports last week, with some rioting and shouts of "Hang Laval!" at Cherbourg, showed that the Premier was acting none too soon...
...osteopaths in the U. S. last year collected some $43,000,000 from patients who believe that most diseases can be cured by manipulation of joints. Simultaneously 400 students graduated from the six "strong"* osteopathic colleges and began to earn money on their own account. When the American Osteopathic Association decided to hold its 39th convention in Cleveland last week Governor Martin Luther Davey welcomed it to the State, Mayor Harry Lyman Davis, to the city. When last week the Association hinted at holding its next convention in Manhattan, Governor Herbert Henry Lehman telegraphed: "The people of New York will...
...Investigation observed: "The average layman likes to believe that he could be an expert in solving crimes. But as with any other profession, only a small percentage of those who rate themselves qualified are fitted for criminal investigation." On Page 72, an old-fashioned advertisement urged: BE A DETECTIVE Earn big money Work home or travel Experience unnecessary